Word: alters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth of the matter seems to be that while Sartre may be flattered deer down in his heart, he fears that praise may alter his ego and corrode his style After all, he has been playing the part of the Voice in the wilderness for so long that it may disturb him to realize that people have been listening all along...
After what Band Director James Walker termed "a fiasco" at the Massachusetts game, reports circled about Cambridge that the Band would alter the format of its traditionally humorous half-time presentation. But this is no more than ugly rumor. According to Mr. Walker, the emphasis will still be on humor. The only pressure put upon the Band was in the form of demands that it improve the quality not the content of their performances...
This time out, Snow appears at first to be telling much the same story-and of course through the same narrator, the dispassionate and indestructible lawyer, Lewis Eliot, whose Cambridge and London career parallels Snow's own. A Tory politician named Roger Quaife is trying to alter radically the course of defense policy in the late 1950s by persuading a Tory government to scrap Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, which he sees as ineffective, ruinously expensive, and a dangerous temptation to other small powers to compete in the atomic arms race. Quaife is a tough, experienced and well...
...duties and the other crying for rights." Will one-party government mean repression? For all his terrorist past, Prime Minister Kenyatta, 73, has so far gone out of his way to protect the rights of the minorities-black or white-who opposed him. He says he will not alter any constitutional rights, including individual freedom of expression and assembly. As he outlines it, the new regime will be a sort of a representative dictatorship, with the President chosen from and responsible to Parliament, which in turn would be subject to periodic national elections...
...city could be a target of any Communist retaliation. Housewives began buying extra supplies of rice, charcoal, dried fish and canned goods. Among the 9,500-odd Americans in the capital, including nearly 1,900 women and children, mild security precautions were quietly taken. U.S. citizens were advised to alter their "normal patterns of movement," avoid public places of amusement, and make "frequent inspections of vehicles for bombs...