Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Club" continued to protect Philby, even when, in 1962, his subversion could no longer be denied. Rather than haul him in to confess, S.I.S. sent a longtime colleague to confront him, informally, with his sins-"a sporting way" to "allow Kim to run for it." Contends le Carré: "The Establishment is shown to have behaved with grotesque ineptitude. It is arguable that Kim Philby, spiteful, vain and murderous as he was, was the spy and catalyst whom the Establishment deserved...
Speaking for the American Council on Education, I would urge that the Administration and the Congress consider a system of random selection at the earliest possible moment. With a carefully devised system our nation can confront more realistically its future needs for trained manpower while also maintaining fairness and equity for all who may be subject to call...
Before Vic and Walter confront each other, a Jewish-dialect comedian totters onto the premises in the form of an 89-year-old furniture appraiser. Gregory Solomon, a kind of pickle-barrel philosopher, is as welcome for comic relief as he is dramatically irrelevant. As he haggles over the value of the furniture, Solomon (Harold Gary) makes wry, mocking comments about the family, marriage, his business competitors, serving as a kind of one-man Yiddish Greek chorus...
...breadth and richness, Death in Life has the potential of becoming a treasured experience. It only needs people willing and patient enough to confront it-which is to say, people willing to confront themselves...
...Common Market. In a thoughtful 108-page document, he and his 13-man commission last fall proposed negotiations aimed at allowing Britain to join, although slowly and on terms more acceptable to the Six than to the British. Though the French vetoed the idea, Rey remains determined. Rather than confront De Gaulle directly, as Hallstein used to do, he intends to look for a way around him. "The community must be enlarged," he said last week. "It is very likely that we will finid a compromise solution within the next few months. Before Easter, we will come up with something...