Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from surface disappointment to unconcealed pleasure. Troilus's importance was more than ceremonial, however. It weakened the case for Loeb professionalism, since it was hardly a success. It also weakened the status of its director, Stephen Aaron, whose tenure as assistant director of the Loeb was to be extraordinarily brief...
...assistant attorney general for civil rights under Edward A. Brooke, Campbell was responsible for Massachusetts' dramatic defense of the 1965 Voting Rights Act before the Supreme Court. He enlisted Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and former U.S. Solicitor General, to join him in presenting an amicus curiae brief containing arguments the Court later used in declaring its support...
Nonetheless, an optimist could discern some signs of headway. Marcos noted cryptically that he had heard of a number of "initiatives for peace." U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman took off to brief leaders in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Italy, France, West Germany and Britain on the conference-and there was speculation that he would try to persuade one of the governments along the way, perhaps Djakarta...
...will not allow her to be his. Rosanna ultimately dies in a convent, post partum and penitent, paying dearly for what began as just another portrait sitting. After a brush with a heretic-hunting cardinal (Mario Feliciani) of the Spanish Inquisition, Mel goes quietly to pieces and spends the brief epilogue in an asylum, where demented models presumably inspire his oddly elongated, mystical portraits of the saints...
...brief introduction, the editors disarmingly acknowledge that they are prepared for such criticism; they admit that no one book could ever contain the complete history of a global war involving 56 nations. Their aim instead is to present in words and pictures the essential history of the greatest war and try to re-create a feeling of what it meant to the people who were caught up in it. By and large, they have succeeded. Although the text by New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger is sometimes stiff and distant, the book contains engrossing eyewitness accounts from such diverse...