Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole, Comment is sloppy. Too often does it substitute opinion for thought. And too frequently does it confront the reader with bad writing. Such faults are not the more excusable because of Comment's high principles; rather, they are the more tragic. It is a pity to see a magazine like Comment's handicapped by soft-hearted editing...
...they write major novels. The phrase, once the reviewer's last cymbal crash before his closing chord of adjectives, has become a generic tag, like "short story" and "hot dog." Thus cold frankfurters are cold hot dogs, not cold dogs. Accepting the publishers' ploy, critics must now confront a new literary phenomenon: the insignificant major novel...
...philosopher worthy of the name," Marcel asserted, refuses to submit to the negative attitudes and disillusionments which constantly confront him. He clings to his capacity for wonderment "despite everything surrounding him, and even within him, that tends to dispel...
...Bases? Khrushchev pretended to be especially upset that the U.S. had responded to Russia's peace-loving overtures by raising its military budget. "This," cried Nikita, "may confront the Soviet Union with the necessity of likewise increasing its armament appropriations . . . and the strength of its armed forces." Russia, after all, had reduced its own troop levels. "We have pulled out of all our military bases abroad," he added without a trace of a smile, ignoring the huge Soviet garrisons in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, the supply planes in Laos, and the Soviet arms buildup in faraway Cuba...
Management promptly accepted the Goldberg proposal. But the unions surprisingly turned it down. Joe Curran said that a voluntary 60-day return to work would probably be followed by a Taft-Hartley injunction anyhow; that would confront the unions with the chilling prospect of hitting the bricks again around Christmas. At week's end President Kennedy ordered a study to determine whether the strike was doing enough economic damage to warrant a resort to Taft-Hartley. Whatever happened, everyone concerned knew that the issue of foreign flags and the rivalry between two tough union skippers would plague U.S. waterfronts...