Word: hefting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indonesia's strategic location in the western Pacific and its heft as the world's fifth most populous nation have made the U.S. especially patient in dealing with the exasperating President Sukarno. But as he and the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.) have grown increasingly violent in recent months, U.S. patience has worn thin. Last week President Johnson dispatched Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 70, to Djakarta to see what is left to save in Indonesian-American relations...
...sophomores even to drive in the county around the campus. At well-heeled Northwestern, coeds tool to class in Cadillacs ("We've always had a high caliber of automobile here"). At Harvard, vehement Vespas grind like drunken dentists. At M.I.T., some students park in a remote lot, heft bicycles off the roofs of their cars, pedal the remaining two miles to class...
...best test of a college is whether its alumni continue to have a taste for learning-the very word alumnus comes from the Latin alere, to nourish. Toward this end, college reunions are more and more becoming occasions to heft brains rather than bottles. Now Dartmouth has capped the trend by announcing a full-scale Alumni College to run for two weeks next August...
Precarious Paradise. But this sort of thing is a social disguise for the heft of Cheever's work, which moves between tragedy and farce and realism and fantasy to present a heavy parable of American life-especially the life of the semi-migratory U.S. bourgeoisie and the uncertain ecology of their nesting grounds in the U.S. suburb. Suburbia, which in its modern form is barely a generation old, has so far lacked the kind of precentor or poet that the South, the West, the City, and the Small Town long since acquired. In John Cheever, Suburbia has its first...
Glaring Omission. In sheer heft, Khrushchev's proposal easily outweighed Johnson's. Addressed to every nation in the world that has diplomatic relations with Moscow, Nikita's message rambled on for 20 pages about a four-point plan for an international treaty renouncing the use of force to settle territorial disputes. Since the letter amounted to little more than what the United Nations Charter already included and contained a fistful of jokers in addition (limiting the West's ability to defend Berlin, surrendering Formosa to Red China), U.S. officials showed considerable restraint when they merely characterized...