Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kissing a row of little girls and accepting a spray of red gladioli, Brezhnev heartily embraced Ceauşescu and bussed him three times on the cheeks. The Rumanian's face remained impassive throughout the whole performance. After all, to be kissed but not squeezed by the Russian bear was a small enough price to pay for independence...
With peace so close at hand it is difficult to oppose the war, and the polls bear out the effectiveness of the President's move in this regard. But what the escalators ignore is the fact that they may have run their gamut. Public opinion is not likely to support outright bombing of North Vietnam's population centers. And the people will tire of this phase in the war as readily as they did of the last. That is what Thomas Adams is banking...
Left unsettled as De Gaulle flew back to Paris at week's end (replete with a small Siberian bear in his baggage) was the key question of a Soviet withdrawal of forces from East Germany. De Gaulle clearly would like to see such a first step toward the dissolution of that obstacle to a European settlement, and the U.S. has indicated that it would consider a quid pro quo pullback of its own. The matter may very well be on the agenda of the Warsaw Pact powers when they meet this week in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest...
...number of dramatic geniuses could be counted on one and a half hands. The theater does not live on its masterpieces but between them. Man created the theater in his own image, and it wears two masks and a thousand faces. The mask of tragedy says weep-and bear it. The mask of comedy says grin-and bear it. The theater is witness and partner to man's endurance. Tawdry or frivolous, gallant, polemical or profound, the theater is the place where man speaks to man about man in his living presence...
...would spur some new heroic attitude, and in a minimal way it has. For "Credo quia absurdum [I believe because it is absurd]" these playwrights substitute: I will endure, knowing it is absurd. This is a far cry from the vaulting heroes of past tragedy. The tragic hero must bear full responsibility for his acts, and that is what makes him a thing of the past. Modern intellectual man sees himself as the plaything of powers beyond his reach and shrugs along with Hamlet: "The time is out of joint." The modern mind reduces tragedy to accident and prefers...