Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quintet's grave tone notwithstanding, the dialogue is often so uplifting and epigram matic that it could almost be set to a Rich ard Rodgers score...
Just back from a tour of East Asia, four Senators last week delivered an urgent message to Jimmy Carter over lunch in the Cabinet room. The delegation voiced grave concerns "about the nature and stability of the Korean military balance." Said the Senators: "The withdrawal of U.S. ground forces from the Republic of Korea should be discontinued...
...visit also holds potentially grave risks. Moscow's Americanologists are geared up to scrutinize every public statement?every toast, every press conference comment, every offhand remark ?by Teng for evidence of an anti-Soviet thrust to his visit. In an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan four days before embarking on his U.S. journey, Teng was openly, explicitly anti-Soviet, going so far as to urge a U.S.China alliance against Moscow (see following story). Publication of the interview on the day Teng is to sit down for his first talk with President Carter could confirm...
...blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory operators, staged a "day of action" walkout that afflicted Britons from the cradle to the grave. The public-be-damned attitude of the unions was chillingly summarized by Bill Dunn, an official of the striking ambulance drivers. Brushing aside requests that his members answer emergency calls, he declared: "If lives are lost, then that's the way it must...
...Gerontion: "Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." Despite the calendar, which says he is 84, Gerald Brenan has a luminous mind and an ageless talent. His collage of quotes, aphorisms and observations, in the style of Cyril Connolly's short masterpiece, The Unquiet Grave, deserves a permanent place on the night table. Opened at random, it will provide a refreshment, and occasionally a shock, on nearly every page. Brenan can sometimes be wrongheaded, but he is never dull...