Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...SELECTING the subject of his latest book, Studs Terkel asks a question of agonizing, perhaps even dangerous, consequence. Terkel wants to know about that fundamental, if undefinable American truism, the American Dream. Terkel, of course, asks what the Dream is, but that is not and has never been the most important issue about this curious and wonderful native invention. The vital question is whether the Dream still exists...
...have to wait until next year?" Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci countered. "If people don't know how to fill out the papers, there should be someone to help. People shouldn't have to hire a lawyer," he said...
...Silent Night twinkle through the frosty air. As Father Patrick J. Sullivan of the Roman Catholic film office recalls the scene, he is off in a small New Jersey parish hearing confessions. Suddenly he is summoned for an urgent phone call. Gregory Peck is on the line, wanting to know why on earth the church has rated his forthcoming film To Kill a Mockingbird unsuitable for teenagers. The priest explains that the ending seems to justify the sin of lying, even though it is in a good cause. As Sullivan remembers it, before Mockingbird is released, the final scene...
Ironically, Lummis (pronounced Luhmiss) did not even know Hughes, who lived the last 15 years of his life in seclusion and deprivation. A partner in one of Houston's most prestigious law firms, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Lummis saw his cousin alive only twice, the second time when Lummis was nine years old. Four years ago, when he went to the Texas Medical Center to claim Hughes' body, Lummis was shown an ugly, wasted corpse and had to ask with consternation, "Is this Mr. Hughes?" When it became apparent that Hughes had died without leaving a will, Lummis...
Putting a stop to that speculation clearly required more than a hotline phone call. Thus Agee last week summoned a meeting of company staff to dispel the rumors that his new vice president had become a most favored employee. "I know it has been buzzing around that Mary Cunningham's rise in this company is very unusual and that it has something to do with a personal relationship we have," he said. "It is true that we are very close friends. But that has nothing to do with the way that I and others in this company evaluate...