Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abernathy, who maintains that "my job is to tell the politicians what saith the Lord," had an opportunity to do so when 72 friendly Congressmen, including seven Senators, invited him up to Capitol Hill. In a 90-minute meeting, he promised to discourage civil disobedience-except "as a last resort." In turn, the Congressmen promised to set up what Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart called a "bipartisan, biracial" committee of 15 to 17 members to confer weekly with Abernathy and his lieutenants...
...Germans, except among family and close friends, ever unbend enough to call each other by their first name. Instead, they delight in using strings of titles that proclaim the bearer's academic, professional or aristocratic status. Just about everyone has at least one title, and many people have several. German businessmen and bureaucrats never tire of constructing new and more elaborate handles to stretch across their calling cards and frontdoor name plates. The habit has reached such extremes that some Germans are now revolting against it. Typically, the reformers were unable to resist the temptation to compound...
...absorb 50% this year. Rumania recently took the unprecedented step of placing a $24 million aircraft contract with a British firm instead of with the Russians. Now the Rumanians are even negotiating to join the Washington-based World Bank-the 107-nation lending organization of which no Communist country except Yugoslavia is a member...
...Except for the fact that she is 55 years old and a woman, Novelist Mary McCarthy would be an Angry Young Man. Last year she reported from South Viet Nam, turning her fierce, polemic prose on everything she saw, particularly the Americanization of Saigon ("a gigantic PX") and the moral corruption that, in her view, followed. Now it is North Viet Nam's turn. Last week the New York Review of Books published the first installment of her account of a recent 18-day visit. She was a special guest of North Viet Nam, and it shows. Her report...
Traditional Optimism. Harrington's point of departure is the 1964 election and the legislation that followed from it in 1965, which at long last completed the program of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. "Everyone except the Neanderthals agreed on Federal management of the economy, the goal of full employment, Medicare, formal legal equality for Negroes and, above all, economic growth." As a result, traditional American liberalism lost its innovative thrust, argues Harrington, and is unable to cope with the persisting problems of poverty, urban blight, inadequate education and racial hostility. To Harrington, nothing is more dangerous than...