Word: ades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antiphonal Chorus. The Nixons have always been big senders of Christmas cards; this year they outdid every other presidential couple in memory by mailing out 37,000 red-bordered cards with the White House south façade embossed on the covers...
...that is going to end this war," he declared. "It will end much sooner if we can have a united front behind our very reasonable proposals." But Nixon did not convincingly explain how his course will achieve peace, or how an appeal issued in public for a façade of unity could possibly have much effect on the watching North Vietnamese. In any event, last week's outburst of criticism suggested that a united front on Viet Nam now is only a wishful thought...
...novels of the last fifty years." James is "as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry." It is not the brilliant surface and subtlety of James that attracts Greene, of course, but the underlying anguish, the "hidden books" behind "the façade of his public life." In an essay that no one else could have written, Greene claims James as a literary brother because, as Greene sees it, James also believed in the victory of evil in this world. Greene, in fact, almost succeeds in a posthumous conversion of the Old Master...
...Government and acquire close friends on both sides of the fence. Some are skilled lawyers who see nothing unusual in asking large fees (reportedly up to $1,000,000 by Clark Clifford) during their out periods for discreetly pleading a client's case behind the bureaucratic façade...
...element as well, tending to give credence to De Gaulle's oft-proclaimed prophecy that after his departure chaos would ensue. Then he dismissed Gaullist Jacques Foccart as Secretary-General for African Affairs. Knowledgeable Frenchmen were delighted: Foccart's African designation was in fact a façade for his job as boss of the Gaullist "Barbouzes," a thuggish lot of secret police and informers...