Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets." Perhaps that picture, originally drawn of 19th century England, is too extreme, too simple, too alarmist. But if we are not yet two nations, surely we are in the grip of two realities...
This kind of grip eventually strangles. Every expenditure must be approved by a national Court of Accounts; since proposals flood in at the rate of 25,000 daily, the court is irretrievably backlogged. Eight years ago, Parliament voted $160 million to modernize Naples; only $5,000,000 has actually been spent. Two years after Parliament voted $656 million for 4,710 school buildings to ease an acute shortage of space, work had started on only 15 of them...
...anything, the trench seemed deeper than ever. One reason is that East Germany's Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht fears that closer relations with West Germany might undermine his regime's grip on its 17 million walled-in inhabitants. That anxiety was buttressed only two months ago when Brandt drew spontaneous cheers from East German bystanders on his arrival in Erfurt for the first meeting between the leaders of the two Germanys. Last week, as Stoph came to Kassel for the second session, the Communists clearly were determined to outshine Brandt's reception...
...Brower, professor of English, who are asked to compare today's students with their ancestors of the early sixties. Their replies produce little of interest, but some of Brower's remarks are worth looking over, if only for what they tell of the incredible nostalgia which seems to grip some faculty at Harvard. Brower notes wistfully...
Crown Prince Akihito of Japan must have glowed with pride over his daughter Princess Nori as she was photographed at Togu Palace in Tokyo on her first birthday. With regal bearing, earnest mien and a firm grip on her free-form hobbyhorse, Nori looked ready to take the helm of the ship of state...