Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they go out or have visitors. In each dorm there is a cadre of people who hang around the bells desk, serving their own purposes but also observing all the comings and goings. Everyone knows who everyone else spends time with and talks about it in the interest of friendship. Some girls pick their dates for their friends rather than themselves. Girls who don't go out at all feel miserable and inferior. They are instantly typed...
There were other puzzling aspects. While Radio Tripoli proclaimed "a revolutionary Libya, a socialist Libya," representatives of the 40-odd foreign oil companies (38 of them American) were assured on two separate occasions that their investments were safe. U.S., British and French diplomats heard promises of friendship and good faith. At the British airbase at El Adem, near Tobruk, and at the huge, $100 million Wheelus airbase, manned by some 3,000 Americans, the commanders tactfully suspended training flights, and the new regime requested that the flights remain suspended "temporarily." In every case, the spokesmen for the new regime were...
Nothing that James Pike touched seemed quite the same thereafter. People, ideas, institutions: none of them was immune to the intensity of his presence. All his life he pushed himself at such a headlong pace into anything new-a new project, a new theory, a new friendship-that he often seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His role was to sting minds, being provocative rather than profound. His life was one of dazzling transitions that sometimes made him seem unstable-from attorney to churchman, from Catholic to Protestant, from bishop to dropout. Recently he had turned...
...private life he was a pleasant and gentle man, a Quaker with a sense of humor. For his epitaph, he said he would prefer not a remembrance of his fame as an enemy of rascals but of his less well-known role as the organizer of the Friendship Train, which sent $40 million worth of food to postwar France and Italy in 1947, and as the rebuilder of a Tennessee high school that was bombed...
...droop-mustached Grass is carrying on his highly personalized crusade on behalf of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He is not a member of the party, but nonetheless feels closely linked to it because of leftist leanings and his personal friendship with SPD Leader Willy Brandt. On the stump, Grass has also been spreading a nonpartisan gospel of his own. Germans, he maintains, must shake off their ingrained submission to authority and tradition and participate more actively in government affairs. "People leave too much to the parties," he says. "What we need in this country is a more active citizenship...