Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Politics as Usual. What happened to Carvalho Pinto is typical of how Goulart operates. Pinto's predecessor as Finance Minister was Francisco San Tiago Dantas, whose promises of fiscal good behavior brought $398.5 million in U.S. aid at a tight moment. Dantas lasted less than six months before Goulart fired him. To quiet the outcries of the fiscal community, Goulart put in Carvalho Pinto, a hardheaded conservative. For a time Pinto was able to stop the endless cranking out of meaningless new currency; he also fought against featherbedded government payrolls, called on workers and management to hold down wages...
...along the Berlin Wall, Christmas music was playing. Communist border guards on their best behavior helped old women and toddling children onto Eastbound streetcars, and down the empty, echoing length of Karl Marx Alice even the weathered posters of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be smiling. Then, just before dark on Christmas Day, two 18-year-old East Germans made a break for the Wall. As the boys scrambled over the barbed wire, searchlights blazed and flares burst. A pizzicato of burp guns played brief counterpoint to Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Lungs shredded by Vopo bullets, Electrician...
...dear" in 1893, following Hardy's meeting with the young Mrs. Arthur Henniker, who made the aging Hardy feel, in his own phrase, "a time-torn man" and came close to rupturing his marriage. The letters are full of mild, passing references to Emma's erratic behavior-her abrupt cancellation of a garden party without informing the guests, her abrupt departure for Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary obeisance to Emma's perpetual pains-her lame knee and sprained ankle, chills and influenza, shingles and failing eyesight. A reader...
Fatal Flaw. Such a novel, if it is to be any good, must be a study in the nature of power and the behavior of those who seek it. Shakespeare set his great stage on this theme, but otherwise things have sadly changed. Uneasy still lies the head that wears a crown-the $80,000-a-year presidency. Nobody tells old President Edwards, due for mandatory retirement, anything he does not want to hear. He is even provided with the tragic flaw of the Shakespearean hero. He likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file...
Such a function could be served by a two o'clock signout, with the option of overnight permission from the senior resident. By requiring approval for an overnight, the College would make clear its opposition to thoughtless commitments and thus encourage sophomores to consider carefully decisions about sexual behavior...