Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of the world's doctors, teachers and engineers is increasing only slowly, that of army officers is rising sharply. For the benefit of the latter, he offers a blueprint of the steps necessary for taking over the state. In the process, he shows himself to be a cross between Walter Mitty and Niccolo Machiavelli, a dreamer and a schemer combined...
...Spanish would send a few ships-like Khrushchev sending his missiles halfway to Cuba-and another rising would fail, until a mood of fatalism set in and the old warlike mockery became heavily larded with cries of lament and self-pity: "Poor Wexford, stript naked, hangs high on the cross,/With her heart pierced by traitors and slaves." The warrior, the lugubrious drunk and the ironist all took up residence in the same skull...
...Fans. Cavett, who looks like a cross between Charlie Brown and a member of Our Gang, is a Nebraska boy who started in television as a gag writer, then graduated to performing. Mostly in jest, he credits his late-blooming success to the Hong Kong-flu epidemic that hit the nation just as his morning program was floundering. "It kept people home who otherwise wouldn't watch daytime television...
When the Nixons moved into the White House, most art critics thought that they would prove to be as square as a cross section of the Washington monument. As it turns out, the Nixons are not all that square. Not being expert themselves, they may not be too sure about what they like. But they are willing to take the advice of knowledgeable authorities...
...unlike the heads of bigger businesses, he cannot raise money. Diane has dropped plans to enlarge their kitchen and add another room to the house because "it probably would cost something like $2,000." They do not feel that they can even protect themselves against illness by continuing Blue Cross coverage. "Six years ago, we paid $50 a quarter; now it's $95," says Diane. "We just had to cancel out and quit thinking about what will happen if one of us gets seriously sick...