Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonderful? Do you know my Ravel, my Tchaikovsky, my Brahms?" All the same, Piatigorsky asks: "How is it that a man who never conducted or studied conducting is capable of giving an acceptable performance without warning and on the spur of the moment? No one can expect a comparable feat on any instrument...
Should De Gaulle ever succeed in wedding his obese atomic bomb to his frail Diamant rocket (current orbital payload: 175 Ibs.), France will have obtained a nuclear-missile capability of sorts in the Western Hemisphere-a feat even Khrushchev presumably failed to achieve. France has magnanimously made clear that it plans to permit other nations to use its Guiana pad, including, by all means...
Pinter performs the feat of engaging one's attention without any real personal conflict or continuity of action. The language itself contains no precise dramatic or psychological meaning. This movie would have been almost the same in Polish, without subtitles. That of course is the point of the movie, which concerns three people alive in their various fashions, in and out of a furniture-crammed room...
Will They Use It? In view of all this, why aren't China's neighbors more worried? One experienced U.S. observer in Hong Kong says: "They aren't scaring worth a damn." They are nevertheless impressed that economically backward China accomplished the feat of building the bomb. Throughout Asia and Africa, among nations that vociferously disapproved of U.S. atomic tests, there is a certain racial satisfaction that another white man's monopoly has been broken. There is some talk that India and Japan might now try to build bombs of their...
...wants more children by his new wife, and he seeks to have the vasectomy undone-a feat successful in only about 50% of such cases. No one is more surprised than Judge Sprankle, who says he has "counseled" vasectomy in several hundred nonsupport cases...