Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's favorite dolly," but London's most unloved moron. David Warner's Hamlet is popular not because some jet-set clique has deemed it "In," but because Peter Hall has concentrated on the aspects of the play most meaningful for the 20th century (as distinct from 20th Century-Fox). Those who converse in the "flip jargon" have IQs of 80 or under; it is not the "basic" English for teenagers. For the year's most ridiculous load of generalizations, you deserve to swing indeed. All of you. And not in London either...
...Dunster Political Review's third issue doesn't quite fulfill the hope that the quarterly would provide a forum for articulate and convincing undergraduate political thought. The current issue is, however, a distinct improvement over the previous two largely because it includes a published interview with associate professor of Government James Q. Wilson, a scathing review of James McGregor Burns' Presidential Government by Barney Frank, and some eloquent, enlightening observations about Charles De Gaulle by Jean Lacouture...
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 56, had an experience unique for a high Communist official: an audience with Pope Paul VI. The private, 45-minute encounter signaled a distinct détente between the Catholic and Communist worlds. Even five years ago, a meeting between a Pope and a Soviet foreign minister would have been unthinkable; now Gromyko and Paul were earnestly discussing peace and the dangers in Southeast Asia. After the audience, the Marxist carried away a gold medal commemorating the Ecumenical Council. But no pictures were taken to commemorate the meeting. The Vatican considers Gromyko too controversial...
Gardner ("Mike") Cowles was traveling through darkest Africa last February when he bumped into an old acquaintance: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood. Seizing the opportunity, Cowles offered Attwood a job as editorial director of Cowles publications. Attwood was hesitant about accepting; he had scored a distinct success in Kenya, as he had earlier in Guinea, by practicing a quiet, cheerful diplomacy, by never forcing his views on Africans and by always listening to theirs. He had even survived a bad bout of polio and returned to the job as zestful as ever...
...future, what Catholics should and should not read will be left to their individual consciences, although national conferences of bishops, said Ottaviana, will be empowered to issue warnings-as distinct from bans-against specific books. The cardinal thought that such warnings would be rare...