Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syndicate is threatening to use its control over the party machinery to force through a censure motion against Indira. Some Syndicate members favor the more drastic step of trying to expel her from the party. The looming schism poses many questions about what might happen next in Indian politics. One possibility: Indira could form a coalition between her wing of the party and the Communists and thus remain Prime...
...words are not, as one might readily assume, those of a Latin American politician disgruntled with the U.S. They are Nelson Rockefeller's-and they lie at the core of a report that may well shape Washington's Latin America policy for years to come. The report was the product of a 20-nation journey made by the New York Governor last summer to help the new Nixon Administration reassess and reinvigorate a shaky Latin American policy. Rockefeller's survey trip was beset by anti-American demonstrations and violence. Indeed, some Latin Americans complained that the effort...
...difficult to speak adequately or justly of London," wrote Henry James in 1881. "It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent." Were he alive today, James, a connoisseur of cities, might easily say the same thing about New York or Paris or Tokyo, for the great city is one of the paradoxes of history. In countless different ways, it has almost always been an unpleasant, disagreeable, cheerless, uneasy and reproachful place; in the end, it can only be described as magnificent...
Indeed, the poet Juvenal's complaint about ancient Rome might be made against almost any modern city...
...city governed by birds might be more comfortable than a city governed by men. But it would not be human, nor would it be great; a city is great only in its human associations, confusing as they may be. The ancient Athenians, true urbanites, delighted in the everyday drama of human encounter. For them, the city was the supreme instrument of civilization, the tool that gave men common traditions and goals, even as it encouraged their diversity and growth. "The men who dwell in the city are my teachers," said Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus, "and not the trees...