Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talking Balloons. But Conrad is far different from Herblock. His cartoons are no fast-swept, brutal assaults. Conrad combines meticulous attention to detail with the powerful punch of simplicity. Hours of painstaking research go into a Conrad cartoon, with the result that a Conrad locomotive, for example, really looks like a locomotive-and could pass the technical muster of any engineer. A Conrad cartoon is readily digested at a glance. That glance, he feels certain, is all the reader will give it: "I figure eight seconds is the absolute maximum time anyone should have." Talking balloons almost never drift above...
...attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic hack painter. The plot, insofar as there is one, advances at a glacial pace towards the question of what Flagg and Kinsolving had to do with the brutal sex-murder of an Italian peasant girl...
...final result of Nikita Khrushchev's brutal behavior at the summit conference was to pull the Western alliance together. There were other side effects. Charles de Gaulle earned Ike's heartfelt gratitude by supporting him every step of the way and by presiding with majestic confidence over the disjointed summit sessions; thus De Gaulle achieved the "tripartite directorship" of NATO that has been one of his goals since he took power in 1958. Britain and the Continent felt drawn closer together, too; under the cold draft from the East, the bickering about the Common Market suddenly seemed petty...
Even opposition leaders, who had been arguing that Khrushchev needed greater understanding and sympathy, were shocked by his brutal intemperance. In Britain, Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell placed himself unequivocally behind Macmillan. In France, every party except the Communists blasted Khrushchev. West Germany's Socialists, whose whole foreign policy has been based on the argument that Germany could be reunified if only Adenauer would withdraw from NATO and forswear rearmament, gulped, choked, then manfully reversed a policy of ten years' standing. Only a policy of Western strength, admitted a party spokesman, had deterred Khrushchev from pressing his demands...
Died. Xenia Alexandrovna, 85, the Grand Duchess Xenia. eldest sister of Russia's last czar. Nicholas II, one of the few members of the Romanov family to escape the brutal murders by the Bolsheviks of Nicholas, his children and relatives in 1918; of pneumonia; at Hampton Court. England. When the Bolsheviks came to power. Britain's King George V sent the dreadnought Marlborough to Yalta to carry the grand duchess and her family to safety in England. Her eldest daughter Irene married Prince Yusupov, who was one of the assassins of Rasputin...