Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a far more difficult role than his Oscar performance of Bridge on the River Kwai, Guinness makes Colonel Jock Sinclair a three-dimensional personality seldom found in portrayals of a standard sort of crude-but-lovable Highland officer. In Kwai, Sir Alec had to be inflexible to the point...
A: We all wish to avoid the nuclear holocaust, the final catastrophe, the ultimate disaster. Nobody wants an Armageddon. The great powers are 'have' nations, with fundamental commitments to the status quo. They both wish to avoid the Nth country problem.
White Progress. At Cambridge, filling a position that in the past has gone to such notables as Cornell's Clinton Rossiter and Amherst's Henry Steele Commager, Franklin analyzes the Civil War for" his mostly British students, telling them "how a great experiment could have come to be...
Welcoming Disaster. When Richter turned up in France last month, a new sophistication was almost taken for granted. Recording-company lackeys pressed favors on him at every turn, crowds shivered in the streets outside his hotel, concertgoers cheerfully paid four times the normal Paris prices for their tickets. Richter, in...
But Richter also worked. Returning to his old graveyard-shift practice schedule, he would emerge from his studio alone in the middle of the night, then wander down to a restaurant in Les Halles and eat platters of sea urchins fresh from the shore. Such excursions seemed enriching, and by...