Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent flop of U.S. hopes in Western Europe, the U.S. has lost prestige abroad. At the President's press conference a fortnight ago, a newsman asked Kennedy whether official prestige polls "are now being taken." He admitted that they were, but he conspicuously passed up the chance to counter the critics' charges with figures. Instead, he dismissed prestige polls by saying that the U.S. "is known to be a defender of freedom and is known to carry major burdens around the world," a statement that Nixon could justly have made...
Shifting scenes and persons and points of view, Updike's narrative switches in emphasis between the mythical and the actual. Sometimes within one chapter, especially the first, the juxtaposition of the two seems awkward, a forced and unnatural union. Sometimes the counter-poise is executed with great finesse, as in the chapter purporting to be his father's obituary. Updike shows his control of style; he is a master of pastiche in his broad caricature of the small-town newspaper...
...intellectual career runs into a terrible occident. Logic seems to be the trouble (Hindus have a system of their own, a very non-Aristotelian affair). To the Western reader, Rama-whether in conflict with a Catholic, a Communist or a Freudian- appears, in the female manner, to counter an argument with a story about something else. Rama's efforts to Orientalize Europe's recent social and intellectual history are puzzling. He may be "devoted to Truth and all that," but what are Westerners to make of his theory of Naziism and Communism, which has Hitler representing the male...
...York Times. The very words have a lilt, not unlike clanging ashcans tossed from a refuse truck. What a treasure chest: James Reston, intrepid reporter and pulse counter to the Nation; Craig Claiborne, gourmet par excellence; Orville Prescott on books, Bosley Crowther on movies, Ross Parmenter on music; Seymour Topping reporting from Moscow, Drew Middleton from London, Roy Silver from Rockville Center, David Halberstam from wherever there was trouble, and Farnsworth Fowle, ace of the city-side crew...
...Vellucci proposal will counter an already doomed 'Poon proposal to name the intersection of Bow and Plympton Streets Lampoon Square...