Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second prize, Poirier chose a tragicomic story by Ivan Gold, and made clear how closely it too displays the search by the writer for authentic attitudes, his impatience with conventional social definitions. Called "The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown," it tells of the death (interestingly, five of the twelve prizewinners deal with dying) of Brown, one of two Negroes in a basic training platoon. Gold satirizes the remaining main characters--the embittered Corporal Cherry, Private Hines, whose inclusion makes it clear that Gold is not particularly concerned with Brown as a member of a minority group, and Private...
...week that could change the whole future of mankind, there was still another view, and it seemed all too familiar: Plus fa change, plus c'est la méme chose. In 1957, when Russia orbited Sputnik I, the U.S. displayed its rocket lag for all the world to see. Last week's Soviet exploit demonstrated that the lag has scarcely lessened. Official U.S. reaction to Gaga's feat was at least as nonchalant as the reaction to the first Sputnik. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians, but at his press conference he indicated that the desalinization...
...Choice. De Gaulle offered the F.L.N. a blunt alternative: freedom in association with France, or a partitioned Algeria. In the event that Algeria chose to sever all ties, he warned, the Europeans, who "too have the right of self-determination," would "have to be relocated by us and their protection assured." And he vowed to deport the 400,000 Algerian Moslems who dig the ditches and clear the streets of Metropolitan France- and whose remittances keep some 2,000,000 of their relatives back home alive. "Naturally, we should cease immediately to sink in a henceforth hopeless enterprise our resources...
...from the main drag, brought electricity to hundreds of thousands of Greeks who never had known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma for once commands confidence at home and abroad. Tourists who once chose Italy or France now flock to enjoy the thin sun, sail out to the Aegean islands, and scramble around the magnificent rubble of the Acropolis...
After Robert McNamara resigned the Ford presidency last December to become Kennedy's Defense Secretary, Chairman Henry Ford II assumed the post himself while trying to decide on a new man out of the handful of executives (including the famed "whiz kids") just below McNamara. Ford instead chose an oldtime executive who frankly describes himself as "a nuts and bolts...