Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Johnson supporters' first rush for the exit, however, 19 other members who voted against the McCarthy endorsement announced that they will remain in the A.D.A. to try to prevent the organization's collapse. After all, the organization may wind up backing Johnson against the Republican candidate after the party conventions this summer...
...social critiscism. What is worse, Charlie's contempt for the traps and trappings of wealth cannot hide an underlying self-pity, accentuated by Actor Finney's eyes-closed, O-God-I'm-so-weary-of-you-all posture. And Charlie's wild-blue-yonder exit is not so much escape as escapism-providing an end without a conclusion to a view without a point...
Addressing the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Galbraith said that the United States must stop the bombing in Vietnam to start peace negotiations or find "the most dignified exit possible...
...ship-clearing operation had begun smoothly enough. For two days Israeli soldiers idly watched from the east bank while Egyptian tugs probed south of the midway port of Ismailia to chart an exit channel past sunken obstacles (scuttled ships, downed jets). Then, breaking a tacit understanding with Israel that they would clear only the southern half of the canal, the Egyptians suddenly announced that they also wanted to look over the canal's northern half. The Israelis immediately suspected an Egyptian maneuver aimed not only at reopening the canal's entire 107-mile length but perhaps at clearing...
There is no exit except to succumb to the flood of insanity. The book's real villain is the pointlessness of life, and in Paris literary circles this is a very fashionable villain indeed. Author Le Clézio, 27, frankly enjoys life himself-he is an ardent jazz and movie buff-but he is much too clever to let the fact seep into his books. If he had to choose a bedside volume, he says, it would be Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps Le Clézio should reread that work more closely. As Tweedledum remarked of Alice...