Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THOSE sharp words from Senators and Congressmen reflected the rising emotions in Washington as the Administration and the Congress held fast to their collision course over Richard Nixon's drive to expand the power of his presidency. At issue were two quite distinct matters: 1) Nixon's determination to decide how federal tax money will be spent, and 2) his desire to protect the entire Executive Branch against congressional scrutiny. More specifically, the latter argument centered on his attempt to keep all White House officials, past or present, from being publicly grilled about the Watergate political espionage scandal...
West Germany's Willy Brandt has two distinct voices: the Chancellor, dignified and statesmanlike; the Social Democratic Party leader, impassioned and hard-hitting. At the S.P.D.'s party congress in Hannover last week, it was clear that Willy No. 1 had stayed home in stately old Bonn. Willy No. 2, the angry table thumper, was in charge. It was the first major test of Brandt's leadership since last November's elections, and Brandt faced a challenge from his party's young Marxist wing, led by Jungsozialisten (Juso) Chief Wolfgang Roth. The Juso faction demanded...
...soup and saltines. He is working on a new literary form: pornography for children. Globke, Bucky's anxious manager, is a winsome monster because he is totally aware of what he is. "I'm not new money, new culture, new consciousness," he says. "I emerge from a distinct tradition. Bad taste...
...surprised not to find A Country Doctor anticlimactic. It's a one-act adaptation of a Kafka story by Hans Werner Henze, consisting entirely of a dramatic monologue by the title character. Philip Kelsey turns in a remarkable performance, in which every word is distinct and every word radiates a baffled, innocent hopelessness that progresses into insanity. The refusal of the people around him to seize responsibility for their own lives without benefit of elergy, doctors, or other agents of the state combined with his own inabilities, makes his life increasingly unbearable: "What do they want from doctors," he asks...
Based upon today's article [April 16] on the first lightweight race of the season, it is my distinct impression that the reporter assigned to the lightweight crew beat this spring knows little about rowing and doesn't bother to attend the races about which he writes. Evidence abounds...