Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The fact that Nixon spoke of himself as the hero of this American dream, even though his intent was plainly modest, seemed cloying to some. And the reference to a train whistle was an oddly old-fashioned note: trains do not symbolize escape and movement to today's young. Yet...
Until his reputation eroded, he had been considered a cinch for reelection. A lawyer who combined business and political acumen, Long was lieutenant governor when he became the Democrats' 1960 compromise choice to succeed the late Senator Thomas Hennings. Lapsing into Washington obscurity, he emerged in 1965 to launch...
∙Let us surrender to all rebellions: they will end by turning against themselves, against us ... Perhaps then we shall regain our supremacy over time; unless, the other way around, struggling to escape the calamity of consciousness, we rejoin animals, plants, things, return to that primordial stupidity of which, through...
Frank Dawley, a young ex-factory worker, has deserted his wife and his pregnant mistress to fight for the F.L.N. against the French in Algeria. His journey turns into what might be called an existential Pilgrim's Progress. Is he simply trying to escape the ties of his former...
Only one perspective on the current Czech crisis is popular in the United States. According to this view, Czechoslovakia, a stubbornly courageous nation determined to escape communism, waits tensely in the shadow of annihilation cast by her oppressor of the last 20 years, Russia. Violence might erupt any moment.