Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French has the brutal impact of a bombe plastique...
...Hail to Gerald Scarfe's surrealistic creation of the Beatles incarnate [Sept. 22]! And raga-rah to your smashing account of psychedelic Beatledom...
...Novelist Mary McCarthy, who insists that it is the duty of the antiwar intellectuals not to suggest ways to get out of Viet Nam gracefully-just to keep pounding away at Johnson to get out, period. "How this should be done," she wrote in her frankly biased account, Vietnam, "ought not to be the concern of those who oppose our presence there." A far different approach was adopted by Novelist John Updike, in a letter to the New York Times last week. "Anyone not a rigorous pacifist," he wrote, "must at least consider the argument that this war, evil...
Another factor seems to account for the federal deficiency. Nigeria's Oxford-educated elite made the tribal group their power base, appealing to ethnic sentiments rather than issues. Surely, they eased their own way to power; but Nigeria paid dearly. Tribal divisions were institutionalized in government. Leaders found their maneuverability fatally limited. Thus, Gowon, as a northern general, owed his office to Hausa support. He heeded their opposition to the confederate plan, even though his stand jeopardized an equitable sentiment...
...past, the Coop was able to maintain the ten-eight refund rate despite rises in expenses by drawing from its yearly surplus in dealings with non-members, Morrill said. (Non-members account for about 20 per cent of yearly business.) But tax laws passed in 1962 no longer allow that, the general manager explained...