Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most free-world governments grant their Chief Executive a more powerful mandate. Save for Argentina, Finland, India, Portugal and West Germany, which use modified Electoral College systems, democratic nations that have written their constitutions in the years since 1787 have generally avoided the Electoral College compromise in favor of either direct popular election (as in France and Mexico) or a variation on the English parliamentary system...
...force now has 400 combat aircraft, including 40 SU-7 all-weather fighter-bombers, and 110 Mig-21s that can fly higher and faster than Israeli Skyhawks. Since other Arab forces have been similarly re-equipped, the balance of firepower has been tilted heavily in the Arabs' favor-at least on the paper order of battle (see chart...
...Politics-young, rebellious and impatient for change-to greater battles and more broken heads? Will it solidify the silent masses of settled, older Americans into rigid and angry resistance? Mayor Daley's mail count, despite press objections to his tactics, is running 20 to 1 in his favor...
...Player. Is Wolf God? Or merely man trying to spell God with the wrong mental blocks? Either, or both, is possible. Wolf's academy seems a splendid microcosm for mirroring a civilization and its discontents. Unhappily, as the book progresses, Stern slights the academy in favor of a labyrinthine exploration of Wolf's hang-ups. To the useful tale of his youth, Stern ties a string of current circumstances, including a preposterously pregnant ex-wife and a mad film director whose sole purpose is to prove that God, man and Wolf are all prisoners of their past...
...metaphor hardly explored and barely furnished. It is largely unpeopled, too, except for Wolf's assistant, a splendidly grotesque, wasp-tongued Negro named Gilliatt. Archly antiSemitic, he quotes upbeat Talmudic texts to needle Wolf, and continually accuses him of secretly sabotaging the academy's sacred neutrality in favor of life. Gilliatt reasons that the Jews invented resurrection and so are rotten with humanitarian sympathy. Gilliatt may be the best bit-part player of the literary year...