Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afterwards there was dancing or watching-dancing from the beams on which so many people had stretched out. Before I left Cambridge, I had been told, "If you speak with someone at Antioch for five minutes, it is assumed you will sleep with him." This had caused a moment of uneasiness about going to visit a cousin of mine there, but he was a good guide. I asked him about the intimacy I felt at the Feast, and he told me that it was in this house in "the glen" that most of the T-groups were held. Memories must...
...That's the be-all and end-all." Goldberg commented after the meeting. "It shows them up for what they are. You have to wait until the very last moment to find out the underlying reasons behind their motives...
Window Dressing. For the moment, however, the dollar seems secure against the devaluation that a gold-price increase would involve. The U.S. last year ran a tiny balance-of-payments surplus, its first in eleven years. It was a victory with a high price. "No one should be deluded," says Treasury Secretary Kennedy. "Underneath the overall result, our trade balance has sagged to the vanishing point under the pressure of inflation, and additional controls on American investment were imposed to achieve the balance. We do not plan to rely indefinitely on tight controls or statistical window dressing to disguise...
...cover the adventures of three men marking time before they get their "Greetings" from the draft board. In fact, the flip sketches never cohere into a whole picture; Greetings' vitality and weakness are both due to its inability to concentrate on any subject for more than a moment...
...Yorkshireman, Budgie is befriended by a 14-year-old boy and his dog Nightpoodle, by a girl who has two distinct personalities (a waif named Wendy and a whore called Olga), and by an erratic young painter. Each of them meets with personal disaster, and at the last terrified moment each sees, or thinks he sees, Budgie Bill...