Word: claires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...window of St. Clair's in Brattle Square, there are 26 stuffed baby ducklings, each bearing splendid ribbons about its middle and the insignia, Made in Japan, neatly plastered to the webbing of one foot. I feel compelled to report this happy news...
...reasons for objecting to the U.N.'s use of force may not be valid, but they are perfectly clair, and--since they are to be the core of my New Republic piece--you might have tried to mention them. It is a bit too easy to dismiss an opinion which one has not accurately described. What ain't fair ain't American. Stanley Hoffmann, Associate Professor of Govt...
...Hoffmann's different interpretation of all this is indeed "perfectly clair" and well worth reading. What he left unclair in his article was his reason for thinking the Indian action similar to the U.N.'s in inspiration and probable effect. If I was unfair to him, It was in not pointing out that he very wisely drops the parallel after a few paragraphs, and concentrates on his objections to the U.N. Itself; I was only astonished that he had seen any similarity in the first place...
...Government, which is the dream of anyone anxious to avoid a polarization of Cold War forces in the Congo: anyone, in short, who supported what Hoffmann called Hammarskjold's conception of the UN. Hoffmann's confusion of these quite different military actions is surprising. Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas francais...
...Symphony has sold 600,000, but the only real rivals to Cliburn-Tchaikovsky are preserved on old-fashioned shellac. Among the million-selling 78s: Jalousie, performed by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Pianist Jose Iturbi in Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat and Debussy's Clair de Lune, Leopold Stokowski's recording of Tales from the Vienna Woods...