Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While that cannot happen overnight, Western Europe may finally be able to cooperate in taking over much of its own defense-thus shouldering more of the huge military burden that the U.S. has carried since the cold war began. "The shape of Europe's future is essentially the business of the Europeans," Richard Nixon has observed. If De Gaulle's return to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises clears the way for a new Western European consensus outside his outsized shadow, the U.S. may finally see what it set out to achieve after World War II: a Continent once more...
...Quarter between police and students, but they were largely provoked by the flics, as though attempting to incite the Gaullist prophecy into reality. If that was the aim, it failed. France accepted the vacuum calmly, fascinated by the details of the transition, watching and waiting to see what would happen next. Interim President Alain Poher, a quiet, reassuring man, contributed to the calm as he moved swiftly and decisively to ensure against chaos...
...elephant in the familiar folk parable. One blind man feels the elephant's leg and says that.the beast is a pillar; another feels the tuft of its tail and declares the elephant to be a broom, and so on. Depending on which tracks of the record listeners happen to touch upon, the recording group-which is also called Blood, Sweat & Tears-sounds like many different bands. In Smiling Phases, it is a hard-chugging blues-rock outfit with a fillip of modern jazz. In Blues-Part II, it is a modern jazz combo with a streak of contemporary classical...
...happening to Ali MacGraw, and it's happening all at once. Until lately, her world had been Manhattan's jungle of models and photographers, boutiques and private discothèques. Now, at 30, her first film role, as Brenda Patimkin in Goodbye, Columbus, has made her the latest heir apparent in a domain that is just as fickle. "I always had a wish, way in the back of my head, that it would happen," Ali says, "but I did nothing about it. You don't do what you don't have...
...anguished, uncommitted Middle would to well to recall that history has crushed neutrality time and again; that men have been forced to choose sides, often belonging in neither camp. It has not come to that in America, yet, but what has happened at Harvard this week, in my opinion, is an example of what can happen to a nation when moral judgment is suspended on behalf of those dissident few who mock the foundations of the society in word and act. Carole Comeron Shaw (Graduate student's wife...