Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, by John Fowles. A fascinating novel that uses the tricks and turns of Victorian fiction to pound home the thesis that freedom is the natural condition...
...settlement that he initiated even before taking office, and a personal letter sent to Ho Chi Minh before the North Vietnamese President's death. "No progress whatever has been made," Nixon reported grimly, "except agreement on the shape of the bargaining table." The more support he got at home, he said, the sooner he could redeem his pledge "to end the war in a way that we could win the peace...
...Saturday night felt that while there were a few isolated cases of brutality by Federal Marshals, on the whole the troops had been well behaved in the face of a great deal of abuse and provocation. Those who stayed until midnight-when the last reporters had gone home and the last T.V. crew (BBC) had been told that it couldn't use its spot light because it was provoking incidents-went away with an entirely different impression...
...behind him complained. "Get LBJ out of his warm bed and bring him down here to see what's going on." someone said over the microphone. But nobody came to watch what was going on near the steps of the capital. Everyone who was anyone had gone home, disgusted with the conduct of the demonstrators...
...fact. one of the major weaknesses of the current production is the attempt to modernize a piece which is already so applicable to the present. In Blitzstein's original. Mister. "Number-one-home-snatcher," builds a swimming pool, a park. and a library to justify some shady real estate dealings. In the Loeb production. the swimming pool and the park become a research hospital and a gymnasium. One feels insulted. It's like having the punch line of a joke explained...