Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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These first few months--with the inaugural address and the selection of the Cabinet--will set the tone of the entire Kennedy Administration. Soon, those of us who supported Kennedy as our only hope for a decent future will know whether our faith was well-placed...
This election "is the most responsible time in the life of every citizen in any country... I have no expectation that the Presidency is an empty or an easy job... The job of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished public business of our country," Kennedy said solemnly...
...book's best piece is about railroading - how to set a freight car's brake and then, perilously, slip blocks of wood under the wheels; the arrogant, slow-motion skill of well-paid oldtimers in clean overalls; the trainman's contempt for the placid, nonrolling civilian world. The author's stream-of-consciousness gibberish is fairly effective as he tells of being summoned at 4:30 a.m. to catch an early run ("I wake up ... in the mouth of the night and there everything knows that I have no mother, and no sister, and no father...
...Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Since it was written in 1936, this prose account of sharecroppers' lives, set down with the dark rage of a poet, has become a classic...
...freshmen scored again early in the second quarter on a two-yard plunge by Bill Grana, again set up by a toss from Humenuk...