Word: denouements
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...Nixon's negotiators do not want a grand denouement to the war. They want merely a cease-fire in place, which would be followed by a total U.S. withdrawal in four months, in return for release of the U.S. prisoners. The central political issue of who controls Saigon-vital to you but less and less important to the U.S.-would be settled later by the two Viet Nams. As Washington, and almost every Communist capital, sees it, cold logic simply demands an agreement along those lines...
...crime, readers are treated to idioms in several languages and quotes from the likes of Horace and Kipling. They are also encouraged to consider such things as the qualities of Napoleon's marshals, and unexpected parallels between a Feydeau farce and suspense fiction (the inevitability of a preposterous denouement...
...convention with his pleas for civil rights; he had been thought too radical all through the '50s, lost out to John Kennedy in 1960 and to Richard Nixon in 1968, and lived to find himself rejected as L.B.J.'s contaminated lieutenant in 1972. It was a bitter denouement, and in private Humphrey was uncharacteristically vitriolic about it. Two days later he said: "They said if I won, I'd never get the convention to make it unanimous. Well, they didn't make McGovern's nomination unanimous either. Notice that...
...weak head. Danny sticks up for Ben when the nasty policemen want to kill him, even vis its him in his sewer home somewhere under Wilshire Boulevard to warn him that the cops are coming with fire hos es and flamethrowers. Such touching devotion leads to a dewy denouement that paves the way, alas, for still another sequel...
After the weekend, the euphoria passes and increasing numbers of students returned to class. A two-hour sit-in Monday at the Cambridge draft board drew only 100 persons and the novelty of the Mass Hall occupation wore off. The denouement hit rock bottom at the Tuesday night mass meeting, which had been slated by the first gathering to "discuss the response of both the Harvard Administration and the U.S. to the current crisis...