Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further evidence came to light last week from Prague sources to indicate that Brezhnev had been the real heavy during the Moscow meetings. He would listen only to President Ludvik Svoboda, a hero of the Czechoslovak brigade that fought against the Nazis. Impatiently and arrogantly, he cut off the others in midsentence. Moreover, claimed the sources, as soon as word reached Moscow that President Johnson had left Washington's crisis atmosphere for his Texas ranch, Brezhnev and the other Russians felt assured that there would be no U.S. move to counter their invasion. Accordingly, they hardened their attitude toward...
Iranian students in the United States, however, see the Shah in a different light. Like many of the Latin American rulers Harvard has so honored, the Shah is considerably less popular with his own people than with American observers. The Iranian Students Association in the United States announced that it rejected the Shah's regime as oppressive and militarily imposed, and the students picketed outside Harvard Yard during the Shah's address...
...light of the holy flame," they cried, "true to the legacy of the best sons and daughters of our people, we pledge to prepare ourselves well through premilitary training and to be courageous, disciplined soldiers of tomorrow, loyal to our socialist fatherland...
Temporary Control. The censorship so far has been light. Journalists no longer write direct attacks against the Russians, no longer refer to Russian soldiers as "occupying troops," but their stories are anything but friendly. Rude Pravo reported with oblique subtlety that any agreements Dubček made in Moscow had been dictated by "unimaginably abnormal circumstances," conducted a quick public-opinion poll that showed that Dubček and his reforms had overwhelming popular support...
...fiction. He is book editor of Commonweal, film critic for Esquire, and a freelance reviewer for at least half a dozen other publications. He undertakes this extra work partly for the money, but he also thoroughly enjoys it. "Criticism," he says, "is the last refuge of the light essayist." In Sheed's case, it may be a refuge, but it will hardly be the last...