Word: lumping
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...there, an insoluble hard lump in the hearts of the men who know how the world works. Is this the last act of summit virtuosity that Richard Nixon will be able to perform? In the next weeks he could be destroyed by Watergate or so diminished that he could never again face the world from his pinnacle, having lost confidence and influence at home and prestige abroad. In another of those oddities of this time, the old Communist Leonid Brezhnev was in town doing what he could to shore up the President's prestige...
...official policy of the Lon Nol government is to lump all antigovernment forces together as "the Vietnamese Communists." By contrast, a young Khmer with royal blood and intelligence contacts makes an impassioned case that the K.I. are not really Communists at all, but anti-Lon Nol forces who would quickly settle the war if the marshal were put out to pasture...
Distillers, which marketed thalidomide in Britain through a pharmaceutical subsidiary until 1961, has agreed to pay $12,500 to each set of parents in consideration of their suffering and expenses. A lump sum of $15 million will be distributed to 340 of the children who were not part of a 1968 settlement involving 58 children. In addition, $35 million will be paid into a charitable trust for all the children in seven yearly installments of $5,000,000. As a protection against possible erosion by inflation, there is an escalation clause that could increase each payment...
...Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable to mineral is abolished; the popeyed homunculi who scurry like moles through...
Harvard officials are presently negotiating with the License Commission, Sennott said, and the "probable outcome will entail such a low fee on each license that the lump sum will not be prohibitive...