Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, to say only that he calls up the child murderer with a twist of the thumb is to overlook his more substantial accomplishment. He's on stage the length of the play, and never falters. He works well with the succession of characters who confront him. And he has the finesse not to waste himself in the early scenes. I only caught on to a few of his bits at the very...
...poor alone do not make up Boston's population, nor must their problems be the sole concern of the New Bostonians. But until they confront the problems of poverty, discrimination, and education, their attempt to rebuild John Winthrop's "City on a Hill" will remain a futile experiment. Their symbol will be the Prudential Tower, graceless, sterile, out-of-scale, but nonetheless a tribute to Boston's ingenuity and progress, though hardly its humanity
...Similar headaches of "dual nationality" confront naturalized U.S. citizens born in Egypt, Greece, Iran, Poland, Rumania, Syria, Turkey, Yugoslavia and several other countries. Czechoslovakia refuses to recognize as U.S. citizens even the U.S.-born children of Czech parents. Such Americans should avoid Czechoslovakia on pain of arrest...
...warmth and a fresh estimate of Britain's stature. And Wilson is holding the line in Britain's overseas defense system, stretching from Germany to Aden, and in Malaysia, where a beefed-up British expeditionary force of 50,000 men and one-third of the British Navy confront Indonesia's Sukarno...
...citizens," they say. "Unless a convincing critique of our country's present course of action in Southeast Asia can be offered and made politically relevant, we shall continue to face the threat of general war in that area and wherever revolution and American conventional wisdom on social change confront each other...