Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sessions, including some bearing the repellent name of "working teas." Inevitably Gromyko sidled up to Herter and privately suggested giving ground a little here or there, to keep the talk going. The West Germans, alarmed at the possibility of last-minute "ill-considered concessions," sent a hurry-up call for West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt to appear at Geneva. They need not have worried. The last days were spent in,exchange of poles-apart position papers, in discussing how to counter specious last-minute Soviet offers in deciding whether to recess or to break oo:. After nine...
...still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend, he was buried in a great cement hole, his arms and legs tied with cables, but broke free and got away, now lives in a royal palace in Paris. They call him Jesus Matswa, cherish photomontages that show Jesus chatting amiably with Matswa on the Mount of Olives. More recently, Matswanists have put together an unlikely trinity comprising Matswa, Jesus and Charles de Gaulle...
...reading sort. Several misguided publishers have tried to give Quetta a daily newspaper of its own; the most successful of these lasted only 18 issues. Quettans get along with a bizarre medley of nine local weeklies (est. combined circulation: under 5,000), which only charity could call newspapers...
...through college face a bleak and restricted future in the new India; the number of unemployed graduates tops half a million. This paradox of unprecedented numbers demanding university training, when the country's backward economy cannot even absorb all those now being graduated, has created what Indians call their crisis in higher education. It will be a top item for debate at this week's meeting of Indian state ministers of education in New Delhi...
This is not to imply that I consider Macbeth Shakespeare's greatest work. Othello is his greatest play (Macaulay went so far as to call it "the greatest work in the world"), or at least his grandest; it is his most masterfully constructed, and for once the quality of the writing never sags from the very highest level. King Lear is the most broadly scaled, intense, and heart-rending. Hamlet is the most ingenious, kaleidoscopic, and--as no one ever tires of saying--inexhaustible...