Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SIGNS AND WONDERS, by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Against a backdrop of Gaullist France near the end of the Algerian war, a writer plods his slow march to lunacy. In her sixth novel, Author Mallet-Joris again demonstrates her ability to create worlds that readers accept instantly...
...streets blasting out street lights with .50-cal. machine guns and spraying down suspect buildings. Seeing a Negro man walk by, one Guardsman, rifle at the ready, ordered: "You get out of here, boy. Faster, boy. You run out of here." The man had no choice but to accept the humiliation and jog off. A couple and their three friends were ordered to lie on the ground, and then were threatened by more than a dozen Guardsmen armed with automatic weapons. Lieut. General John L. Throckmorton, the Army paratroop commander who took control of the Guardsmen when they were federalized...
...pure pork. Nearly $2.5 billion goes for Atomic Energy Commission construction and operations, another $294 million to control water pollution. There's the rub. Because the bill goes to the White House as a single package, the President, lacking an item veto, must reject the entire bill or accept it all. And no Congressman doubts that Lyndon Johnson will have to forget his deficit, gulp hard and swallow the bill whole-including such frills as the Delaware River-Tocks Island reservoir and recreational program at the New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania border, which was originally supposed to cost...
...military and political questions. The committee's undisputed leader, the man who calls the meetings and runs the show, will be Ky. The prospect, then, is that even if Thieu is elected President, Ky will in fact be in charge. It is an arrangement Thieu seems willing to accept as a fair exchange for the honor of the presidency-for the time being, at least...
...Game also fulfills one of the criteria which Paul Goodman lists for pacifist movies: "probably the chief factor of war spirit that must be analyzed is not the military character nor the projection of the enemy, but the paralysis with which the vast majority of people of all countries accept the war..." The film is most effective when it contrasts the woman on the street saying "Yes, we'd have to retaliate if they attacked first" with the terrified, and terrifying blank faces of the children who "survived" the retaliation...