Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likelihood is small, and Johnson quipped at week's end: "I'm not a candidate for anything except maybe a rocking chair." But the fact that it was even being mentioned was a measure of the Democrats' uneasy mood as they assembled in Chicago. Said McCarthy Aide Richard Goodwin: "This is the convention of the lemmings. Everybody is swimming out to sea, screaming at each other-and Richard Nixon is sitting on the bank laughing...
...promising to reimpose a degree of censorship and brake the democratization a bit as part of a political compromise. The Russians, in return, would permit not only Dubcek but also Cernik and Smrkovsky to continue in office. This would leave mat ters pretty much where they stood after Cierna?except that Soviet tanks would still be in Czechoslovakia as enforcers of the agreement. There were even reports that the party bosses from Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Bulgaria might come to Moscow to give their endorsement to such an accord...
...giant cecropia moths, which live in the woods, studied them under a binocular microscope and decided that it was tiny spikes at the base of their delicate, fernlike antennae that reacted to strong light. To check his theory, he blacked out the moths' eyes, painted each antenna black, except for the tips of the spikes, and ran minuscule wires into the main antennal nerves. Then he began subjecting them to light of varying intensity...
...makes adolescents so saddening and maddening-and adolescence such a groovy movie subject. In Zita, an archetypical French fille named only Annie flits agonizingly between life and death. The daughter of a slain Spanish loyalist, she has sympathy for the world but affection for none of its inhab itants, except her ancient Aunt Zita (Katina Paxinou). One afternoon the girl comes home to find the old lady writhing on the floor. Zita has suffered a stroke, and each gasp edges her closer to the grave...
...ideological struggle between East and West. Fong endures it all with the patience of a grinning Buddha: "As a carpenter he did not have to grin at all. As a grocer he found that he spent most of the day grinning. He would not have noticed it except that it made his face hurt." As the story unfolds in a gracefully comic style comparable to that of Joyce Cary's in The Horse's Mouth, the author, too, flashes the reader a winning smile...