Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteers first converged on New Hampshire's snowfields six months ago, a vociferous assault on the Johnson Administration has broadened, with the President's abdication, into an offensive against the traditional machinery of the Democratic Party. "Clean Gene's" partisans and many Robert Kennedy dissidents alike dismiss the entire process-the Old Politics-as tired and untrue. Last week, while McCarthy sunbathed on a Minnesota lake, his volunteers, left idle since the end of the primary campaigns, geared up their own New Politics machine...
...vague in a Delphic way, and to some interpreters of the oracle it meant that De Gaulle, despite his decision to dismiss Pompidou, had actually settled on him as his successor in the presidency. Most people felt, however, that it was simply a case of an old man canning a younger potential rival who, in the words of one of Pompidou's aides, "had gotten too big too soon." Any doubt that Pompidou was sacked was more or less dispelled when Couve re appointed practically every Minister in the old Cabinet-an indication that De Gaulle wanted only...
While there was no government reaction in Jerusalem, Israeli officials tended to dismiss the report as simply "good public relations," and restated their position that no peace is possible unless the Egyptians negotiate directly with them. Many observers believe that it was the May 1967 withdrawal of U.N. troops from Sinai and Gaza at Nasser's request that led to the war, but the question of U.N. troops is now only one of the problems to be dealt with in any peace negotiations. And before the troops return, the U.N. would certainly seek assurances that they would...
...French are rarely consistent, but they are usually logical-in their fashion. From the lycée onward, millions of Frenchmen are exposed to the classic symmetrical syllogisms of cartesian logic; as a result, a Frenchman tends to dismiss whatever he disagrees with not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it seems wrongly reasoned. "C'est pas logique."-roughly, "No one in his right mind would think like that"-is a favorite saying. To the vast numbers of middle-aged who feared continued social upheavals, to the little old ladies in black who considered the old ways best...
...best seller, and sells it to Paramount which hires a fashionable director for a small fortune to make the movie. It's a sure-fire success formula--not exactly a sublime collaboration of great artists, let alone unusually talented craftsmen. Rosemary's Baby, then, would be easy to dismiss as a slack and inadequate thriller were it not for everyone's desire to take Polanski seriously as an auteur...