Word: withdrawnness
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Islands in the Main. The unhappy exception to the expanding national experience, says Author Boorstin, was the South. Its cities were not intellectual and cultural centers. Its planter-family leadership was generally rural and withdrawn. Its economy was agrarian and tied increasingly to a single crop. Its immigrants (the Negroes) were never assimilated, but were held apart in an arbitrary and bifurcated social structure. Its legal system depended on a punctilious, vague, and largely unwritten code of honor. And its preachments on the state's right of secession nourished a colonial mentality in the South long after the rest...
...program manager Dan Griffin denied yesterday that the song had been taken off the air by the station. He said that it had simply lost popularity. But Warren Mower, the station's promotion director, said that the song had been withdrawn from the air during the stations weekly record review because "its lyrics and mood were questionable...
...Passed, by a 63-to-14 vote in the Senate, a slightly watered down $320 million road beautification bill to provide for junkyard cleanups and billboard controls along federally financed highways. As originally reported out of the Senate Public Works Committee, the measure would have withdrawn all federal highway funds from any state that did not effectively curtail unsightly billboard advertising within 660 feet of federal-aid highways. The bill's punitive powers were cut by an amendment providing for withdrawal of only 10% of federal road money in such cases...
...people of South Viet Nam of their own government-a choice free of terrorism, violence and coercion from any quarter"; 2) the people of South Viet Nam should be free to choose between independence and reunification with the Communist North; and 3) "all foreign forces and bases" must be withdrawn from North and South Viet Nam, provided "peace can be reestablished, and the arrangements include adequate international guarantees of noninterference, not only for Viet Nam but for Laos and Cambodia as well...
Rumania has withdrawn in all but name from the Warsaw Pact military alliance: the last Russian troops left the country in 1958. It has cut down both the size of its army and the duty tenure and has reserved the right to decide on its own whether to go to war with the rest of the countries in the pact. Bucharest boycotted the plan of Comecon, the bloc's common market, to make the nation merely a provider of gasoline and grain, instead is busy building a broad industrial base from which to trade West as well as East...