Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end De Gaulle could return to France well content. Problems aplenty remained, but France and Britain seemed once more united by the bonds of sincere fellow feeling that have supported them through two major wars in this century. Their disagreements are in method, not in purpose...
What happens if he does not get help? Beltrán has seen the pathetic silhouettes of the Incas' descendants in their ponchos, black pigtails and felt hats, herding Peru's 3,500,000 llamas, vicunas and alpacas. In the country the Indians are still content to dance hand in hand around trees to the sad sounds of stringed instruments plucked in a minor key. In Lima, they pile up in miserable shanties at the rate of 4,000 a year, jobless and hopeless. Says Beltrán: "We are not immune to a Castro...
...putters about building a stone wall, or shoots an occasional game bird, or strums a guitar to his own bawdy lyrics. A veteran of two stormy marriages, he looks forward to the summer visits of his ten-and 20-year-old daughters, who live in England. He is still content with the epitaph he once proposed for himself: "I intend to die young and have the following words on my tomb: 'Lawrence Durrell wishes you great passions and short lives.' If I die old, it will only need altering by one word...
...course, nobody was content to leave it at that, in a world that speaks of diplomatic illnesses and remembers Khrushchev's phony toothache during Macmillan's Russian trip. If Nikita was not really sick, no known external situation seemed to require him to postpone his French trip, and the explanation had to lie in an internal crisis, or trouble provoked by his Chinese partners. He had been gadding about so much lately that something might well require his presence in the Kremlin to help resolve...
...Gone are the days when an Ivy League dean could mutter: "If the check is good and the body is warm, he's in." By a process that Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold calls "Calvinistic," today's aspiring freshman is weighed and tested for academic content, percentiled for promise by electronic gadgets, and harried by word that average admission standards will soon rise by one full year. Much worse, his cost for four years at a residential college may soon double to the price of a couple of deluxe Cadillacs-$16,000 or more. Little wonder...