Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove the old maxim that four Frenchmen locked in a room together are likely to emerge with five political parties. In the course of their first-week search to mount a challenge to Gaullism, they only managed to stumble over one another in a parody of the Alphonse-Gaston act...
Almost his first act was to summon the director of France's state-controlled radio and television networks. Under De Gaulle, the O.R.T.F. (Office de la Radio et Télévision Française) was a shamelessly partisan instrument of politics. For the forthcoming election, Poher told the director, it must be absolutely impartial. If it is not, he warned, he will carry his complaint straight to the French public. Poher does not really have the power to give that kind of order, but on hearing of his threat, Couve reportedly blanched. Poher is almost certain...
...year-old leader of the marchers, read a statement accusing the News of becoming "a diabolical menace because of its racially inflammatory editorials, features and distorted reportings." The Rev. Joseph McHale, a Catholic priest, ignited a trash can full of copies of the newspaper. He called the act a "symbol of purification" and urged a public boycott of the News...
...officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in a state of public stoicism and private gloom. Their triumph has become their travail: having progressed from orbiting a 31.5-lb. Explorer satellite to the Apollo lunar landing program, they are like showmen who brought off a spectacularly successful act and are now having trouble deciding upon an acceptable encore...
...block. But when he finally does manage to complete a counterfeit of Titian's Venus of Urbino, he likes the fake so much that he steals it back from the thieves in preference to the real thing. Skillfully Malamud somehow turns this gesture into a superbly comic act of integrity...