Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steel Strike: He planned no new move to avert a strike "other than to continue to urge both sides to continue negotiations." Both sides should "keep before their eyes what the United States needs...
Geneva Conference: "We are ready to talk and discuss anything because we certainly do want to find some way of reaching a solution that will not keep the whole world on edge." But "the unmovable stone" in the U.S. position is "that of respecting our responsibilities and making certain that we retain our rights with respect to Berlin...
...style may also be responsible for some of the difficulty he presents to listeners. It is taut and lean; a poem like "By Lamplight" moves along so fast that even knowing what the situation is hardly helps one keep up with it. Mr. Kunitz reads well, emphasizing the brittle sonic effects and providing real dramatic power where it is called...
...make promises to the extent that we hope, and keep them to the extent that we fear...
...only two years after his death, it takes an effort of the imagination to recall the shifty but haunted eyes, the spurious rhetoric, the rasping voice ("Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman! Point of order!") that could not be halted by the gavel of reason. The allusion to Euripides should not keep one from remembering that, while there was tragedy in the McCarthy era. there was comedy, too. Rovere recalls that Brooks Atkinson once blamed McCarthyism for a bad Broadway season and that a noted rabbi held the Senator's influence responsible for panty raids on college dormitories...