Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your reviewer raps Miller for not being a "competent novelist"; yet the book is not a novel but an autobiography! Miller himself said of this book, "I made a herculean effort to represent myself for what I then was," and the result was "not a lovely picture I made of myself...
Khoya Quandary. For all the herculean effort, the Afro-Asian* "summit" was doomed in advance to be a colossal anticlimax. As one Arab diplomat observed: "You can't have a coup and a conference." Yet that was exactly what Colonel Houari Boumedienne hoped to achieve. Since every invitation to the conference had been personally issued by President Ahmed ben Bella, the man whom Boumedienne had deposed a week earlier, many heads of state doubted the propriety of attending it as guests of the new regime; others were frankly worried about their safety. Even before the coup, the nine former...
...long run, the Goldwater defeat may be the shock that revives this party which has for more than 30 years provided few moments of leadership and even fewer leaders. For now, however, the GOP's task seems herculean. In the 1950's the party made an inept attempt at becoming a majority party. In the 1960's it must do something far more basic: reassert itself as an effective minority party...
...hero of the novel answers to the name of Mason Jarrett, but he strongly resembles guntherized Gunther. A rumpled bear of a man, working for a Chicago paper, he covers all southeastern Europe from Istanbul to Prague. Jarrett also has Gunther's herculean capacity for hard work, his shrewd journalistic intuition, the same flair for intimate background stories about nations and their leaders; and he is in on every major event from Austria's abortive 1931 attempt to form a customs union with Germany to its four-day civil war in February 1934, when the fascist Heitnwehr militia...
...Times, and New York is New York. Traditionally, Times readers have been better informed about events in Ghana or Gulistan than developments in their own backyard. One reason is that even with the Times's resources, covering New York City and its populous suburbs is a herculean problem. The megalopolis, from Greenwich, Conn., to Greenwich Village, East Hampton to the West 90s, encompasses one of the world's most diffuse, complex and heterogeneous clutter of communities. No single daily can easily reach all the assorted facets and tastes of Greater New York. In fact, none of Manhattan...