Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cows don't sing, whales don't fly, and Charles de Gaulle doesn't take back anything he's said in all his 77 years. Except this time, maybe. Evidently alarmed by the angry charges of anti-Semitism that followed his attack on Israel at last month's press conference, De Gaulle wrote a three-page justification of his remarks to former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. He had really meant it as a compliment, said le grand Charles, when he described the Jews as "an elite, sure of themselves and domineering." De Gaulle likes...
...Evening News with a two-minute film report from a leaf-strewn country road in Vermont ("It is death that causes this blinding show of color, but it is a fierce and flaming death"). While rolling through Ohio in November, Kuralt noticed that every town in the area except Harrisburg (pop: 360) was plastered with campaign posters. This led to an account of a town that was holding an election but "managed to escape all the unseemly excitement of Election Day by the simple expedient of nobody running for anything." The town treasurer, a lady who keeps the ledgers...
...With sadness," the bishops said, "we notice that some today, using the noble word charism or employing theology almost as therapy, ridicule the church and, under the guise of being contemporary, seem hostile to everything except their own views. What begins as necessary and solid criticism seems readily to degenerate into a destructive attitude toward life unworthy of reason and inconsistent with faith...
...consult with Ecuadorians about the best way to work in specific geographic or technical areas, and try to see that the suggestions of this country's citizens are carefully considered: but beyond that, they are in total control of the Peace Corps' decision making process. For example, no Ecuadorians (except the two hired by the Peace Corps) are present at meetings where the organization's overall priorities are established...
...which Professor Reischauer addressed a letter to his colleagues on the Faculty, declares that "the earliest possible achievement of a negotiated settlement should be a primary objective of American policy in Vietnam." The wording here is deliberately ambiguous. Our own position is that there is little to negotiate except immediate American withdrawal and perhaps reparations to the Vietnamese people. We never expected Professor Reischauer to espouse this particular interpretation, but we did believe that he was sincere in his plea for some kind of negotiated settlement. Thus we find it difficult to understand how he could sign his name...