Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary Lord Home went to unprecedented lengths. On the key question of seating both pro-Communist delegations, Britain and the U.S. agreed to a final position paper that contained a scribbled Rusk provision that the Laotians could sit only "as observers with the right to speak." Home showed the document to Gromyko, and they jointly announced complete agreement-but the scribbled proviso had somehow disappeared. Feeling betrayed and angry, Rusk cabled Kennedy, who reluctantly decided to go ahead with the conference rather than face the neutralist complaints that the U.S. was "obstructionist...
...overcome that she fainted at their reunion. Scarcely pausing to bring her round, he eagerly went into politics, called for a constitutional monarchy, and hung the U.S. Bill of Rights on his wall with an empty frame beside it, explaining to visitors: "It is intended to contain a similar document for France." On July 11, 1789, La Fayette tried to fill the frame by presenting to the States-General his radical Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens. But the Revolution quickly became too violent and ugly for his aristocratic reformer's views, and La Fayette...
...Laurence Olivier (the Albert Finney of his generation) in John Osborne's The Entertainer. As happens all too often, the translation from stage to screen has not been an altogether felicitous one. But still, in all, one of last year's ten best; a courageous, honest, and well-performed document it is. Co-featured is an unknown quantity--a Novel "witty film package" (the words are the UT's). Tonight at 8:30. With Valerie Hobson and ever-amusing Stanley Holloway...
...Boston Record devoted a syndicated series to the document. The first article revealed in slightly sensational terms that the seventy-odd professors who signed the statement had not, indeed, participated in drafting it! Credit must certainly go to the Record reporter who conceived this original angle for maligning the petition, which had never (nor has any petition ever) been set forth as the joint literary offspring of its signers...
...Country. The early years of Freud are presented in an imperfect but successful marriage of document and drama. Steven Hill is able as the struggling psychoanalyst, and Kim Stanley is excellent as his patient...