Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magnetic self-contained drama of birth excites everyone, partly because it is man's eternal second chance. Paradoxically, it seems to affirm what it is destined to refute, as one generation's wisdom inevitably becomes the next generation's folly. Without being overly profound or unduly grave, William Goodhart has planted this insight in the spine of his first play. In a rock-solid performance, Henry Fonda not only gives body to a role, but also substance...
...reaffirmed his support for the 1964 civil rights bill and 1965 voting rights law, but admitted to "grave questions about the current civil rights leadership." Now is the time, he said, "for reconciliation not revolution...
...affaires was roused at one o'clock in the morning with a curt summons to the Foreign Ministry, where he was handed an ultimatum. In brutal terms, the note gave the Indian government three days "to dismantle all military structures along the Sikkim border," or else take the "grave consequences...
Closed Neck. Ever since fighting broke out over Kashmir, China has been verbally encouraging Pakistan and denouncing Indian "aggression." Now Peking switched to grave threats and, for India, it could not have come at a worse time or place. The Indian protectorate of Sikkim is a tiny mountain state ruled by King Palden Thondup Nameyal and his American Queen Hope. It has only 162,000 inhabitants, an area smaller than Yellowstone Park, and a preposterous army of 280 militiamen plus 60 palace guards...
...months the stoutly pro-American and pro-European Pinay, still clear-eyed and vigorous at 73, had been insisting that he would run only sur demande, and then only in "the case of grave and dramatic circumstances." The center delegates thought they had such a case in De Gaulle's harshly anti-NATO, anti-Common Market press-conference pronouncements a fortnight ago. But Pinay last week professed to be still unconvinced. If things were all that bad, he asked, why were not Deputies resigning, workers marching in the street? He would run only if assured at least a third...