Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet Compromises. Because of the divisions in the Communist world, it was not really remarkable that there were abstentions and objections. Surprising, however, was the extent to which the Soviets bent and shuffled in order to get as many signatures as possible on the dotted line. Moscow had once aimed to use the conference to read the Chinese out of the Communist movement. No such luck: all direct mention of the Chinese was knocked out of the final version. The Kremlin had also wanted to gain the parties' approval for the doctrine of limited sovereignty, by which the Soviet...
...yellow is beautiful-when Christ is present." To those who came forward to accept Christ at Graham's call (between 800 and 1,000 each night), Billy's charge included a similar theme: "Go to a person of another race and make friends with him." To what extent such efforts will succeed remains to be seen. "I no longer feel I can change the world," Graham admitted last week. Nevertheless, he is clearly still trying...
...times. This particular variety of infectious demi-think is as sinister a threat to America as the nuclear stalemate or environmental pollution, for it moves the electoral decision from reason to the irrational and erodes people's belief in the democratic process. A greater tragedy, though, is the extent to which Yorty's racism has so aptly measured the temperament of the voter. How dare we feign shock at the news of a Watts...
...force and authoritarianism hurts its role as a Communist leader. Partly for that very reason, the movement's fission has proved to be a downright political advantage to many Communist parties. The image of Communism's being run by an alien despotism in Moscow has faded to a great extent as individual parties have become more independent. The French party for years cringed under Socialist Guy Mollet's indictment that "the Communists are not of the Left but of the East"; by asserting a moderate amount of independence, the French Communists have gained a new respectability in French political life...
Some critics of American orchestral life contend that the real trouble is that the symphony has been for too long a plaything of the wealthy. Even though symphony-going is not dominated by the rich to the extent that it was 40 years ago, it is still a formal experience that most turned-on youth regard as static, outmoded and irrelevant. As the conservative, 19th century-oriented programming of most orchestras proves, the institutions are trapped into patterns of pleasing the wealthy patrons who support them-and by and large, the patrons like Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky. This does...