Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nitze doubts that President Carter fully understands the nuclear game he is playing. Nitze went to the White House once, and Carter gently upbraided him. The President urged Nitze to join his team and help work out a treaty that would both be good for the U.S. and be an agreement that "the Russians would think is fair." That disturbed Nitze. "The Russians do not understand what we mean by fairness," he insists, and so he told the President...
...bargain with her originally uncooperative characters: they will be in her movie if they are allowed to name it. They accuse her of heartless artistic license: "If you really want to make good cartoons you have to be in one first." When she walks away in frustration, the pencils join in the rebel cause and they all try to make their own movie, like the old "goofy groceries" of the 1930's and 40's who fight for love and glory that goes on after the grocer locks up for the night...
...1930s. The performers belt out the songs, pushing each other out of the spotlight in mock rivalry. If the mood suits them, they'll spring to their feet to tap out a furious rhythm, or languidly drape themselves across the piano-player on the stage, who frequently joins in the refrain. On more than one number, they exhort the audience to join...
...wrong in fact, that Danehy cajoled and argued and pressured the City Council to join in a citizen group's suit asking for an injunction against the MBTA's construction activities...
DIED. Allen Tate, 79, influential Southern poet, critic and teacher; in Nashville. A Kentuckian who as a boy longed to be another Edgar Allan Poe, Tate was a brilliant, arrogant senior at Vanderbilt University when he was invited to join a group of older poets known as the Fugitives, which included his teacher John Crowe Ransom. Believing that industrialism would ruin the South, Tate was for a time an agrarian and always venerated what he saw as the stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found...