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Thompson had to chase Khrushchev halfway across Russia to deliver his message, finally caught up with him at Novosibirsk. 1.750 miles east of Moscow, and settled down for a four-hour discussion. With direct implication that his words were those chosen by President Kennedy himself. Thompson made the blunt declaration that the U.S. is dead serious in its desire to make Laos neutral. When the U.S. said neutrality, added Thompson, it meant (as it has not always in the past) complete neutrality. Thompson offered specifics of what the U.S. was prepared to do. provided the Russians were prepared to reciprocate...
...idea seemed to be that Jânío was hell-bent to achieve a totally independent position halfway between the U.S. and the Communist bloc, and would brook no argument. Late in the week, he announced that Brazil might well vote both for Red China's admission to the United Nations and the Khrushchev plan to "reorganize" the U.N. into complete impotence. As for the rumbling all this aroused among some politicians and military men, Quadros vowed, "There are only two ways to block my course: to depose me or assassinate...
...lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first the audience is led to think that Shlink is simply a capitalist villain, but halfway through the play, in an intriguing reversal, Brecht makes clear that Shlink himself is a victim-one whose skin has been so toughened by life that he can no longer feel. In fact, he probably stages his battle with Garga only to see whether any sensation will return...
There is still a third aspect to PBH's Mental Hospital Program, the newly developed "halfway house," where a few ex-patients live with students until they are ready to become part of the community. By living in a normal environment at "Wellment," the patients can learn the social behavior, forgotten during their long years in the hospital...
Portraitist's Protest. By the time Lorrain died in Rome in 1682, all France had become the servant of Louis XIV, then halfway through his 72-year reign. The function of the artist was to glorify the Sun King, often as a Roman emperor or a god; and the King had his own esthetic dictator to see that this was done...