Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secret Talks. Some Arab moderates have already disclaimed the charge of U.S. involvement in the war, are anxious to maintain their ties to Washington. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba is encouraging stranded tourists to visit his country. Even in Egypt, Foreign Office officials called in several Western European ambassadors last week, secretly asked them how Nasser could mend his relations with Washington without losing face. For all of Nasser's pro-Soviet posturing, the Communist Party is still outlawed in Egypt, and he does not want to plunge irrevocably into the Russian camp...
Shadow Plays. In his struggle to maintain that fusion, he very nearly realized the wish that he once expressed as a little boy-to grow up to be "a martyr." He was accepted at the Vienna Conservatory at 15, later supported himself by conducting, and at 37 became director of the Vienna Opera. He swept out has-been singers and dusty traditions, and turned out the polished, provocative productions that made him one of Europe's major musical forces. He was also a fanatical-looking figure-5 ft. 6 in. tall, thin, gazing fiercely from behind rimless spectacles...
...home base of Harvard's musical Establishment, there really is no musical Establishment. Instead, there are five to a dozen groups competing for the privilege. The Glee Club is as much a final club as a music-making organization. The HRO cannot attract many of the best instrumentalists who maintain that their time is better spent practicing privately than rehearsing with the orchestra. By now the "Harvard-Radcliffe" Orchestra has adopted a policy of beefing itself up with players from other colleges and from the conservatories...
...fact, with the exception of China and Vietnam, communists have been unable to seize control of nationalist movement anywhere in Asia or Africa. Therefore if guerrillas are successful, the nationalist governments which they establish need not conflict with America's vital interests; successful revolutionaries will insist on and maintain their independence of China and other powers...
...main attraction of community organizing is the chance it gives Harvard dissenters to act in what they consider a constructive manner to halt the war. The current widespread alienation from the government--and the normal politics which seems to maintain it -- has stimulated many students who were previously apathetic over public affairs to become involved...