Word: apte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starts explaining about the machinery. Those who take their funhouses seriously may grow confused and exasperated. But readers of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy are familiar with Barth's impulses toward farce, his intellectual mobility, shaggy doggerel and merry nihilism. These people are apt to accept the clever gimmickry as one would a party favor...
...inability of outsiders to perceive that a "quiet counterrevolution" had, in fact, been going on in Czechoslovakia. One must not wait, wrote Pravda, "for the shooting of Communists and the appearance of gallows before going to the aid of the adherents of socialism." Such tortuously dogmatic reasoning was apt to exacerbate rather than calm the anger of Communists abroad. As Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban observed: "The Soviet Union has lost one of the great dimensions of its foreign policy, namely the remarkable capacity that it had to appeal to the minds and consciences of millions of people outside...
...comedy I Dream of Jeannie. Yet sure enough, there was George Wallace in living color at Jeannie's usual time, dispensing his own brand of sugar-sweet demagoguery in his first nationwide TV appeal. For all the contrast, the substitution of George for Jeannie was bizarrely apt. For like the star of the show-a genie-Wallace is a specter that both major parties would prefer to see back in the bottle...
Taxi drivers, taking passengers to the high-domed, gleaming beige mansion on Washington, D.C.'s fashionable Foxhall Road, are apt to ask if it is an embassy. Pedestrians sometimes mistake it for a new museum, stroll in to peer at Bonnard's radiant Après le Déjeuner in the foyer. The house is not an embassy or museum, but neither is it an ordinary home. It is the new, luxurious, $1.5 million-plus home of David Lloyd Kreeger, 59, and his wife Carmen, who built it as a sort of shrine...
...industry, it has long been an article of faith that a youngster who plays with make-believe guns is no more likely to grow up a criminal than a boy who plays with make-believe churches is apt to mature into a saint. Yet as a result of the furor over gun controls that followed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, toy guns may soon be much harder to obtain...