Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Short story, "Sentimental Education", Harold Brodkey some of the reasons why Elgin Smith wanted to fall in love. On a warm September evening, standing on the steps of Widener Library, Elgin Smith "was thinking what it would be like to fall in love, worship a girl and put his life at her feet. He despised because he feared he was incapable of passion.... He was curses in English Literature, German Literature, in literature, in History--ancient and medieval, and every one of them was full of incidents that he thought mocked him, since they seemed to say that the meaning...
...ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when he said: "If Khrushchev's reason was to spread panic among our people, then he has signally failed...
...half forgotten, their own limitations are the principal cause, but they have been given a forceful, added shove toward oblivion by the work of a new writer whose themes are quieter and deeper. Already hailed in London as one of the major playwrights of the decade, 31-year-old Harold Pinter has come to Manhattan with The Caretaker (TIME, Oct. 13), the biggest serious hit of the new season...
...Harold Macmillan, as I tried to show in the first of these articles, has withheld assurance to the new Tory progressives that they at last hold the party's reins. His Cabinet changes have distributed the work load of critical decisions among a capable crop of men, but he has failed to supply the Government with a strong, central policy-making organism...
...Butler has been appointed to lead Britain's negotiations with the Common Market, which is a job made enormously difficult not only because the Home Secretaryship (which he keeps) is a harshly demanding post, but because the Government's attitude toward the negotiations is still hopelessly undefined. Nothing that Harold Macmillan said at Brighton made it any clearer; he believed that "this is the dawn and not the dusk," that "our purpose is by evolution to create a new Commonwealth structure which will avoid the decline and fall which till now has been the fate of every empire." He implied...