Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred years ago, Jean Jacques Rousseau described peace parleys as "a species of general diets where one deliberates in common as to whether the table will be round or square, whether the chamber will have more or fewer doors, whether such and such a plenipotentiary will have his face or his back turned toward the window, whether such and such another will take two steps more or less while making a visit, and upon a thousand other questions of equal importance, uselessly debated for the past three centuries." Things have scarcely changed since...
Amman, sipping thick coffee in the drawing rooms of Damascus, or lounging in the common rooms of the American University of Beirut, the Voice brings welcome-if often inaccurate-news...
Despite their common adversity, the Arabs are as quarrelsome and mistrustful of one another as ever. Iraq, for example, has sent troops to bolster shattered Jordan's defenses against Israel, and King Hussein worries about the Iraqis in his midst almost as much as he does about Israel. The U.S. is committed to peace in the area and to Israel's right to exist; but also vitally needs to establish better relations with the Arabs, most of whom regard America as simply the backer and ally of Israel. In this situation, Washington can do little beyond attempting...
Health officials and their laboratory experts, using ultrarefined microtechniques, began closing in on the culprit microbes. No doubt many of the illnesses were caused by assorted viruses that have no common names and produce indistinguishable illnesses. But it was almost certain that most of the symptoms resulted from the epidemic spread of influenza viruses. Of these, there are two main types, A and B. The B type appears to be stable and causes outbreaks of moderate severity every two to four years. On the other hand the A types are highly unstable and mutate unpredictably...
Lillian Hellman's rebuke to George Kennan after he bemoaned the irresponsibility and nihilism of youth had the same effect. Abandoning rhetoric and argument, Hellman recalled talking with Kennan in a European cafe decades before. "We've had so many common experiences," she said. "How come we feel so differently about youth?" The reproach was simple, emotional and electric...