Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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African Dashikis and guerrilla-style fatigues set the sartorial tone and tough radicalism dominated the rhetoric last week when 350 delegates to the First National Black Economic Conference met in Detroit. First they ejected white news men. Then they rejected capitalism for a socialist state for Negroes. Within this brave new world, young Negroes would spurn such "dead end" and "status quo" jobs as driving trucks, delivering mail or repairing television sets...
Pompidou's easygoing study habits seem not to have bothered the Education Ministry, which offered him a teaching job in the classics after graduation. He accepted, and in 1935 married Claude Cahour, the daughter of a country doctor, whom he had met in Paris. Unlike so many of De Gaulle's disciples, Pompidou had neither enlisted in the exile army nor joined the underground in World War II. He passed it quietly as a teacher, and when the general marched victoriously into Paris, Pompidou watched the parade from the sidewalk, one spectator among many thousands. He liked what...
Debate in Washington. Events in the Middle East are thus rapidly outpacing the diplomatic efforts to find a settlement. Representatives of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France met again in New York last week, but their discussions will be made more difficult by the indecision now attending French foreign policy. Bilateral negotiations in Washington between State Department officials and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin are more crucial. In this case, Washington's diplomats are negotiating in the presence of a third party that is, as it were, looking over their shoulders: the U.S. Jewish community, which is deeply concerned that...
...about 60 years. It is frequently applied on the basis of fashion, folklore and snobbery. An invisible admissions committee rules out most conservatives-except, perhaps, a William F. Buckley or a Milton Friedman. "Liberal" and "intellectual" are thought to meld nicely. Among scientists, for example, Liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer met the test, but Conservative Edward Teller did not. If nothing else, Viet Nam has provided a handy screening device. Opposition to the war has clinched the intellectual standing of Senator J. William Fulbright and perhaps even of Dr. Spock. War supporters who have been drummed out of the fraternity include...
...overlook their five daily devotions, performed while facing in the direction of Mecca. Yet the same winds of modernity that have swept through Christianity are now beginning to affect the religion of Mohammed. Last week, at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Islamic scholars and sages from 23 Moslem nations met to consider ways of accommodating the Prophet's teachings to a changing world...