Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter Principle to absurdity. Thus the mere invitation to a far capital becomes the message, the hours spent in conference with old adversaries more the measure of success than what was said. Nobody has yet been told what Chairman Mao Tse-tung said to Ford, but we all have been bludgeoned with the fact that the meeting lasted an hour and 50 minutes, the longest audience Mao has granted this year...
WHAT LIFTS this production above the level of mere respectability, however, are the deft performances of Terry and Goldenberg in the main roles. Terry plays Ruth--the dumpy, in tellectual brunette--with zest and comic flair, displaying the versatility of a comedienne in her rendering of numbers like "Ruth's Story Vignettes," in which she portrays the various repressed heroines of her own short stories. Her dramatic contralto invests "A Sure Way"--the still apt lament of the overly intelligent and therefore "unfeminine" woman--with just the right touch of cynicism...
Seymour called American communists who support the Chinese stand "mealy-mouthed Marxists" and "mere handraisers for Peking." Those who support the Chinese policies are allying themselves with Gulf Oil and the C.I.A., Seymour said...
...them to the fear of death--and of killing. Such a consolidation along technological lines is, I submit, now taking place. [in it]...the technologically possible may replace the ethically permissible....and this can only cause subliminal panic, especially where the old decencies will prove inadequate, and where the mere possibility of overkill can be denied only with a mental strain which will match the sexual repression of the passing era in unconscious pathogenic power. (Toward the Year 2000; Bell, editor...
...lecture had one remarkable aspect: the fact that it occurred at all. The speaker was Michele Sindona, the once reclusive Italian financier who is being sought for fraud by the Italian government. A mere two years ago, Sindona controlled a banking and real estate empire comprising scores of companies in Europe and the U.S. Just how big the empire was at its zenith probably was known only to Sindona, but his personal wealth was then estimated at $450 million...