Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming, not at U.S. invitation as he did last year, but visiting by right the 18 acres of U.N. territory on the East River, which is international no man's land. He could hardly hope for an American welcome or even, this time, friendly curiosity. But he seemed intent on a propaganda spectacular designed for the rest of the world...
...irony. But young debutantes who sugar their very small talk with references to Louis XI (not XIII or XIV), and butler who tell dinner guests when their hostes wants them to switch conversational part ners, all lend a persistent air of unreality almost as if the author were intent 01 parody...
...Baffle. But the challenge of pitching as well as he talks has settled Brosnan down. When the bench jockeys sharpen their gibes, the intent Brosnan professes to catch not a word: "I probably have a subconscious baffle to keep from hearing anything." A man who has spent eight months in analysis. Brosnan easily spots the main reason for his new success: he no longer relies on outthinking the batter. "Writing about pitching forced me to recognize how simple it is," he says. "Before, I thought it couldn't possibly be that simple. If I ever get back to thinking...
...Motel Culture. Novelist West is too intent on castigating his characters to really create them. Like many a transplanted American, English-born West, the son of British Author Rebecca West and the late great H. G. Wells, is drawn to the neon glare of U.S. life, but he lacks the gift of a Nabokov for rendering the garish horrors of motel culture. Author West obviously intends his critique of the horrible Hatfields to embrace the present-day U.S., but one rotting family tree scarcely makes a national forest...
...chiefly on France's Charles de Gaulle. Three weeks ago in a meeting with Adenauer at Rambouillet, De Gaulle pressed on the Germans his dreams of a new European political structure-perhaps a permanent series of European summit meetings or a permanent consultative secretariat for political coordination. Still intent on establishing French leadership of the Continent, De Gaulle was trying to create a counterweight to the U.S. within the Western alliance. Adenauer regards the U.S. alliance as basic to Bonn's for eign policy and thinks De Gaulle's dream dangerous. Accordingly, falling back on the technique...