Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single force has worked so powerfully on man as his knowledge that he must surely die. Whole civilizations have been built in death's dominion: the Egyptians turned their land into a vast necropolis, and the Aztecs conquered Mexico not for booty but for human sacrifices to blunt the lethal appetites of their man-eating gods. Trying to cope with the dreadful and perplexing fact of death, man has erected great intellectual edifices; philosophers as far apart as Socrates and (2,300 years after him) Karl Jaspers have held that the essence of philosophy is preparation for death. Others...
...India's white-turbaned Foreign Minister Swaran Singh led his delegation out of the Security Council.* Hooted Pakistan's Bhutto: "The Indian dogs have gone home, not from Kashmir, but from the Security Council." From India, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri shot back that Bhutto's blunt remarks were "vulgar, dirty and uncivilized...
...This hardly bothers the West Germans, who have seen the treaty's value dwindle. The Germans realize that they are the only nation in the Western alliance with unresolved border problems, hence the only nation likely to use "nukes" in passion. What does bother them are the recent blunt remarks attributed to De Gaulle that he is now dead set against Bonn's having control of any strategic nuclear weaponry, or even engaging in nuclear planning. "We are alarmed," said a Bonn official. "The noise itself is not new. What is new is De Gaulle's saying...
...says one Washington professor, "though he does have our complete respect." One reason, explained another, is that "before Odegaard, there was no philosophy from above-professors were getting fat and sassy building their own domains." If there is an absence of affection, it is party because Odegaard is so blunt. He says that "it's better to get dead cats out on the top of the table. I hate sitting down to a pussyfooting conversation." He startled the National Academy of Sciences meeting by declaring in a formal address that "scientism" at too many universities has "run riot," aided...
...French don't care what they do, actually," remarked Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, "as long as they pronounce it properly." The jest was of the blunt Anglo-Saxon variety, but it sums up the reverence that every cultivated Frenchman feels toward the language of Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate...