Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Except for their personal anguish, the Czechoslovaks separated from home and family by the invasion have little in common with the usual refugees from other Communist lands and crises. They are, by and large, skilled, well educated and often relatively well off. A son of Karel Ancerl, who has been named musical director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for its next three seasons, escaped across the border in his family's Mercedes-Benz 250 SL. In Austria, many have loaded up their boxy Skodas for sightseeing tours of the Alps while they await developments in Prague. In London...
...Goldman really Jewish? Convinced that Goldman is actually Adolf Dorff, a former SS colonel expressly charged with the extermination of Jews, three armed Israeli agents abduct him for trial. The court scene that dominates Act II is a desultory affair. It would be a sleepy bore except for Pleasence's arrogant depiction of Dorff. At one point, he rises in his glass booth to deliver a kind of prose love poem to his Führer. The speech rises toward erotic ecstasy so that the climaxing "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" is an orgasm of fanaticism. It terrifyingly...
...Alamos meeting discussed a gun-and-bullet technique for igniting the Abomb, tall, bony Seth Neddermeyer sat quietly, visualizing uranium spheres squeezed like oranges. Finally, he spoke up haltingly for the principle of implosion, understanding it instinctively but expressing it so clumsily that he made little impression on anyone-except Oppenheimer, who encouraged him to devise what finally became an efficient triggering mechanism for nuclear weapons...
...Except for the common bonds of distance running and the lack of group inhibitions, the members of this year's cross country team would have little in common. They are as diverse as any group of Harvard students...
...agreement would eliminate the coat and tie rule for all meals except dinner. The old rule will be replaced by a "well-defined expectation" according to Dean Glimp, spokesman for the Committee...