Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking, winter, 1961. In frosty cold, endless queues line up in front of the few carts of vegetable peddlers. One item only is on sale: cabbage. For me even now its smell evokes Peking...
...Last Word. Hammarskjold's own job is safe until his term expires in April 1963, for there is no provision for the Secretary-General's impeachment. But would he too finally quit rather than endure the endless Soviet slaps? No, said Hammarskjold to the tense delegates. His voice was low, his face stonily impassive, his words edged. "It is ironic for us, who have been guided solely by the interests of the Congo . . . to be attacked by those who pursue entirely different aims,'' said Hammarskjold caustically. "By resigning, I would, at the present difficult and dangerous...
...Roscoe Ates." He summarized Ocean's 11, starring Frank Sinatra, as an "Our Gang comedy for grownups." The Fugitive Kind, a movie based on a Tennessee Williams play, was ''Tennessee Williams tromping around barefooted again in that same old Dixie cup." Dazed by an endless procession of indefatigable ants in Walt Disney's Secrets of Life, Ricketts wrote: "They know nothing but work, work, work and sex, sex, sex. Where they find the time to spoil picnics, we'll never know." Now and then, in rare moments of softness, the Ricketts hostility wanes...
...dramatic scheme: a "peace corps" of "talented young men" to work in the world's poor countries for three years, as an alternative to the draft. Said he: "There is not enough money in all America to relieve the misery of the underdeveloped world in a giant and endless soup kitchen. But there is enough know-how and enough knowledgeable people to help those nations help themselves." Skeptics at once envisioned ponytailed coeds and crew-cut Jack Armstrongs playing Albert Schweitzer-an appalling army of innocents abroad. Nonetheless, Kennedy was flooded with enthusiastic letters. In a Gallup poll...
Because it takes a relatively relaxed approach to scholarship, Oxford must tolerate the lazy professor and the student who fritters away most of his college years with endless parties. On the other hand, the Oxonian might well argue that to foster the imagination the university must allow its men leisure in which to reflect. If some people abuse the system, this must be accepted as inevitable. The university can only set the conditions for thought; it shouldn't try to organise scholarship in terms of output-efficiency...