Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. In this impressive second novel by the author of Spinster, an amoral and witchingly lovely woman spins a treacherous human web, in which men snared by beauty must ultimately confront God, death and salvation...
French President De Gaulle urged recently that his countrymen confront the Algerian dilemma by "looking straight at the problems." But a growing number of Frenchmen were looking apprehensively over their shoulders at M. De Gaulle. The rising tide of suspicion that the government is threatening civil liberties has rocked the nation, which for two years had slept in the absence of any real political life...
...American Negroes have suffered the domination of the white man. Both now seek freedom and equality. The American Negro student has waited six years to see a handful of Negro students isolated and separated in otherwise all-white schools. How strange and embarrassing it must be for him to confront his African contemporary whose nation is planning and beginning to move from stone-age culture to industrialism in the course of a single generation...
...this, said Nixon, would cost the U.S. more at first, but "we must, and should be willing to pay more in order to take a big bite out of the surplus" by a target date four years hence. "No more exciting challenge will confront the next President and his Administration than that of making a national asset, rather than a liability, out of our nation's ability to produce more food and fiber than any other people on earth...
...manned satellites will be, they are not an end in themselves. Says one U.S. technician: "Space is a passageway-not a destination." With orbital flight just around the corner, scientists are already looking for new places for man to go, new things to do, and new problems that might confront him when he breaks completely free from Planet Earth to seek his destiny in the uncharted, perpetual night of outer space...