Word: crossed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world is accustomed to Nasser's words outrunning his intentions, and he did add a promise to "think ten times" before plunging Egypt into all-out war with Israel. He might consider thinking even one or two times more. Egypt lacks the equipment to cross the canal in force, and the best that it could hope would be to damage Israeli bases with its 20 Russian-supplied tactical missiles, which have a range of 45 miles. But, as 1967 proved, the option to attack is not Nasser's alone. There would be no quicker way to draw wrath...
...while other intellectuals are busy accusing them of botching the job. Many denounce the Viet Nam war as "an intellectuals' war," because assorted academics helped conduct it. Meantime, the New Left has attacked liberals for having failed to cure the country's social ills. Caught in this cross fire, the intellectuals are wavering between passive despair and revolutionary fervor. Today, many intellectuals are unsure of where they fit into U.S. life, unsure of how to apply their intelligence to rational reform -even unsure of just what an intellectual is, or ought...
...week is the country weekend. Ten years ago, Muscovites could not understand why Stockholm and other Western capitals emptied out every weekend. Now everyone who can gets out of town, going to dachas in the neighboring countryside or to hastily winterized summer camps for a cheap weekend of cross-country skiing. The two-day weekend also means more time for old-fashioned hobbies such as stamp collecting and chess. Televised soccer and hockey games are popular, and a few privileged children have even taken up gocart racing. Winter and summer, Muscovites splash in the open-air Moskva swimming pool built...
...schlemiel-saint-eyes on heaven, feet on the banana peel. He has appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute one eye winks, his shoulders shrug, his mouth gives a little downward grimace, and out comes the self-mocking voice of a Jewish comedian: "Oy, this hurts...
James J. Caires '18 yesterday invited to a dinner the freshman photographed landing a right cross on a supporter of the SDS strike last month...