Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While its popularity may silence the gloomy critics of the national scene who proclaim that America never reads, the book's success threatens to throw a wench into the social machine. From Philly to Frisco scenes like this one take place: Impatient businessman: "Excuse me." Salesgirl blushes and puts down her copy. "I'm terribly sorry. I usually read only during lunch hour, but this movie star just got breast cancer and I just couldn't tear my self away...." The effect on the economy could be devastating...
...Times has become a "newspaper" by broadening its appeal. No longer does it smugly boast "Top people read the Times." They still do, but now the paper lures younger and even non-U readers. Billboards and subway posters picturing an overalled mechanic proclaim: "It took Bill Sawyer twelve days to discover that he was a Times reader...
...were indeed a reality, from Tel Aviv the convolutions of the General Assembly look like a bad farce which suffers from delusions of grandeur. It seems fantastic that the United Nations can first ignite a house-fire by withdrawing the only peace-keeping force in the area, and then proclaim itself the only fire-engine on the block when the flames threaten the world community...
...greatest single source of this fear lies in the Negro riots that keep tearing at American cities. What is alarming about them is not merely the frustration and bitterness they proclaim, not merely the physical and psychological damage they cause, but also the fact that a few Negro leaders are deliberately trying to justify the riots with a violent and vengeful ideology. This in turn can all too easily be seen as just one aspect of a whole American panorama of violence...
...June 28 speech has prompted columnists to proclaim Galbraith as the new leading spokesman for the critics of the war. In his speech, entitled "Vietnam: The Moderate Solution," the former Ambassador to India and National Chairman of Americans for Democratic Action called for an end of the bombing of North Vietnam as a prelude to negotiations...