Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctant Kosygin behind him. He swept through the Hermitage, gazing judiciously at Rembrandts and Murillos but discreetly skipping the halls devoted to the Napoleonic wars. He visited the World War II monument at Piskarevskoe cemetery, where half a million victims of the 900-day Nazi siege of Leningrad lie buried ("This is the agenda of agony," said De Gaulle). He toured a huge turbine plant, and attended his third ballet in a week-without yawning...
...Varieties of Religious Experience, William James had this to say about his experience with nitrous oxide: "Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. They may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give...
...groundwork for a European settlement. But as he flew to Soviet Asia and announced that he would later visit tiny Cambodia, the war in Viet Nam seemed to be a more urgent topic of conversation. The chief foreign-policy concerns of both America and Russia now lie in Asia. U.S. congressional committees and other forums heatedly debate the stability of Asian regimes, the aspirations of the Mekong Delta peasants, the nature of Buddhism. Understanding Asia has become an urgent task...
...Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure? The Fifth, answered Brennan, only prohibits "the use of physical or moral compulsion to extort communications" from a person. It does not exclude the "body as evidence when it may be material." Lie-detector tests, Brennan went on, might very well be improper because they involve questioning and verbal testimony...
This seems like meager stuff to spin out to book length, and indeed readers who like excitement, suspense, significance, and action will be disappointed. Author Williams' gifts lie in other directions. Her words flow with the great simplicity of someone unaware of an audience, or indifferent to its presence. Her mind remembers those shaded places where life beats at a cooler pulse, and she summons with utter fidelity the simple people who live in the shade. Powder Man is a small triumph, and a kind of spell...