Word: exactement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influential starmaker in TV, he shrewdly uses his power to gather, pay for, juggle, condense, cut or otherwise shape the talent to the needs of his show. He takes no guff from stars, advertisers or agents. When Beatles Manager Brian Epstein told him, "I would like to know the exact wording of your introduction," Sullivan coolly replied, "I would like you to get lost." The one influence that guides his taste is "public opinion, which is the voice...
...role of the priest has changed as well: he is less of a judge, more of a counselor. "A legalistic church was very easy," says a Dominican in Seattle. "I could say to a person 'you are wrong,' exact promises from him never to do it again, give him absolution, and slam the sliding door. But that isn't what confession is all about." Theologian James Burtchaell, 33, of Notre Dame, describes the priest's new confessional role as "nondirective counseling," by which he means "not giving advice but helping you talk your way through problems...
...Congress, Abe Lincoln proposed the famous "Spot Resolution," demanding that the Administration specify the exact spot on which Mexico had, in the words of Folk's war message, "shed American blood upon the American soil." Lincoln, like many other Americans, suspected that U.S. troops had provoked the incident inside Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer...
Throughout the day for several weeks running, a WFBM executive in the guise of a Spanish-accented, used-mosquito dealer drummed up entries for the competition. Last week the results, and corpses, were in-in the office, to be exact, of WFBM Promotion Man Charley Rogers. One housewife had uncovered a mosquito mating ground near her suburban home; she bug-bombed it, netted 73,225 of the critters, mounted them on toilet tissue, and got $3,661.25. Total kill for all contestants was 225,481 mosquitoes. All told, the station was stung...
After a protracted period of ambivalence on the Viet Nam war, Michigan's Governor George Romney followed most other leading Republicans last April 7 in giving general support to the Administration's policy. Last week, by contrast, Romney was leading the party. Although his exact destination was not certain, the direction was clearly away from Lyndon Johnson and toward a clear-cut, independent Republican stance on the war during the 1968 campaign...