Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress, despite the President's quest for a broad consensus, the division of opinion to some extent has continued to follow party and regional lines. Republicans and Southern Democrats generally favored resuming the bombing, while Northern Democrats and liberal Republicans mostly hoped to prolong the pause...
...cantonments in the perimeter around Danang, the President and his advisers were considering a problem that was a corollary to the decision to resume bombing. How heavily should U.S. war planes bomb the North? At the same level as before? More intensively? Initially, at least, the Administration plans to follow roughly the same bombing tactics as before. Nonetheless, commanders in the field are virtually unanimous in urging a more intensified, selective pattern. None suggest bombing the Hanoi-Haiphong population centers. But they point out that the U.S. has a scant 300 planes to plaster a 7,310-sq.-mi. area...
...story begins, Brown, the narrator of this new Graham Greene novel, wonders whether names so common as to imply insignificance must not together hint of some bad joke. Could wild chance have united the three on a freighter bound for Haiti and in the improbable events that follow? The answer is no, and it comes from Greene. His contriving hand is visible throughout, alerting and perhaps warning the reader that there is nothing in it to support, or even to deserve, belief...
Familiar Scenery. Greene's characters follow predestined paths to nowhere, past all the familiar Greeneland scenes: pursuit, betrayal, suicide, failure, adulterous love. Brown is returning to the hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port...
...adopted a four-year gubernatorial term." It is perhaps too obvious to suggest the irrelevance of this argument. A four-year gubernatorial term is indeed a progressive idea; but almost all these states retain two-year terms for their legislators for equally valid reasons. It is also impossible to follow the President's contention that better men will be attracted into government by a four-year term; on the contrary, many districts may begin electing political hacks who let the national ticket do all the talking for them...