Word: ics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gaulle's later maneuvers obscured his victory over the Communists. In December 1944, he traveled to Moscow to sign a pact with Stalin. Later, as head of the provisional government, ic brought some Communists into his Cabinet. But by then he could afford to be conciliatory, for the Communist threat had receded. For all the praise and blame heaped on De Gaulle, little has been made of this particular triumph. Robert Aron has finally given it the scholarly attention and admiration it deserves...
Passion & Loathing. Lorca wrote 13 plays, but he was not in any usual sense a playwright. His best works-Yerma, Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba-are really prose poems, and no one of them has the kind of dramat ic power that seals an audience in its seat. Yerma is the story of a young peasant woman who yearns so passionately for a child that she finally murders her sterile husband, crying "But I have killed my son!" Blood Wedding is a study of one of the terrible family feuds that used to be waged generation after generation...
...publicly deplores military takeovers in Latin American countries, but if they last, invariably winds up dealing with the new governments. Last week, after a two-month wait, the State Department formally resumed diplomat ic relations with Honduras and the Dominican Republic, whose constitution al Presidents were ousted by military coup. Honduras, poor even by Central American standards, desperately needs Alliance for Progress aid ($4.2 million in fiscal 1963). Recognition of the Dominican Republic will enable the U.S. to keep a closer eye on a potentially dangerous Castroite guerrilla flare-up there. The soldiers running the two countries made only distant...
.../I57nIR] LIL h Sa? (c7n. r?mr [LISInIR] e?)6? d)( S()T dSt InIL 75 (IC)? Wn ( OISIN...
...MAKE A MONSTER," rasps the copy for the latest assembly kit-a ic-in. Frankenstein's monster at 98^. "Get Him Now Before He Gets You." The makers of the Frankenstein monster (and other movie monsters to come) include a pious aside to parents: "In the opinion of reputable authorities, [these models] actually perform a valuable service for the child." When "certain fantasies" center about such a model, instead of being "improperly focused," they are released "in the manner of steam escaping through the safety valve on a radiator...