Word: formal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither Israel nor the Arabs could be expected to accept such proposals completely. Israel, moreover, maintains that any settlement can come about only as the result of face-to-face agreement with Arab negotiators. On this point, the Arabs are reluctant, partly because such formal talks would imply full Arab recognition of Israel...
...Less formal discussions, however, have been held. Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon held three secret meetings with Hussein between Sept. 25 and 29 in London. Eban was present at one of these sessions. At one point in this period, Allon also met fruitlessly with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad. It is likely that Eban and Hussein held more private discussions in London in October and January...
After Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi scanned the book, he erupted. Among other things, Kawasaki had quoted a remark generally attributed to General Charles de Gaulle: just before a formal chat in 1964 with the late Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, he confided that "today I am going to have a little talk with a transistor-radio salesman." Even more annoying to Aichi was Kawasaki's charge that in Japan "there is clearly an absence of leadership at the top, no realization of what is best in the national interest, a shortage of moral courage and discipline." Political parties got short...
...eventually envelops and deadens the most remote corners of the communications industry. Yet at its annual convention in Washington, D.C., last week, the National Association of Broadcasters-which includes station owners and networks-took a tentative step toward adopting a plan for the industry's first version of formal censorship...
Between the formal, intricate patterns of ballet and the exuberant disarray of folk dance lies a vast artistic chasm. Some attempts to bridge this gap have been notably successful-the cowboy ballets of Agnes de Mille, for example, or the large-scale ethnic dance companies sent around the world with in creasing frequency by almost any nation anxious to make its own culture known. One of the most dazzling of these troupes is Mexico's Ballet Folklorico, which just completed its seventh U.S. tour with a one-week stand at Manhattan's City Center. Once again it convinced...