Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earlier this year at the invitation of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and met with leading figures in Israeli politics. In the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. Hoffmann has published an article under the title. "A New Policy for Israel," which is worthy of close scrutiny both for its content and as a result of the attention it has received. Hoffmann's thesis is that the time has arrived for Israel to cease pinning all its hopes on a settlement imposed from without by the United States. Instead, he argues. Israel should go to Geneva seeking a negotiated peace treaty...
Rumor Service. Getting there was becoming ever chancier, as the ARVN collapsed before the Communist onslaught. Some newsmen in Saigon were able to buy their way onto a handful of small planes. Others had to be content with piecing together accounts of the war from eyewitnesses, press briefings (including weekly sessions conducted by the Viet Cong in Saigon under the terms of the Paris accords) and an infinite number of rumors. "Just pick up any hotel phone and ask for rumor service," said one correspondent wryly. Ambassador Graham Martin, never a favorite of the U.S. press corps, has discouraged...
...Lessons" are strong examples; they're the only lectures to be given in a foreign language, French, Aaron Copland was the Norton lecturer in 1951-52 with "Music and Imagination." And in 1956-57 the painter Ben Shahn not only gave "exceptional lectures" on "The Shapes of Content" but he set up a studio in the basement of the Fogg museum, where he allowed students to watch him at work. Sometimes he helped them with their own. Four years before Shahn, e.e. cummings came to Harvard to present what have to be the most bizarre Norton lectures ever given...
...went down to unpack." Most of the other lines, though, could have been written for Groucho Marx and perhaps were: "I was tempted to fling him a lakh of rupees with a princely gesture. Not knowing how many ru pees there were to a lakh, though, I had to content myself with the princely gesture...
...orchestration, on the other hand, was all his own. Not content with the modest range of tone color afforded by conventional instruments, P.D.Q. experimented widely with unusual sound. Few of his innovations made it into the mainstream of Western music, and few who heard the Serenoodle last weekend--with members of the Band's expanded percussion section playing police whistle, duck call popgun cowbell and highly anachronistic electric car horn--will wonder...