Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWEET EROS and WITNESS. Nudity is the theatrical vogue at the moment, and in the first of these two one-acters. Playwright Terrence McNally has his psychopathic hero strip Sally Kirkland to the buff and keep her that way. The second and better play is a caustic, comic look at a U.S. where feelings of impotence and venomous frustration translate themselves into the assassination of Presidents...
Party Squabbles. How the coalition would shape up interested Venezuelans, for the moment, less than what had happened to a party that had almost everything going for it. Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez in the '50s had used the country's oil revenues, its biggest source of income, to turn Caracas into one of South America's most spectacular cities and to refurbish himself as well. Action Democrdtica ousted Perez Jimenez in 1958 and put the oil money into schools, highways, health programs and rural electrification. Venezuela still has a $900 million reserve and the bolivar...
TURNING away from the fitful franc for a moment, the International Monetary Fund last week reported some sanguine statistics about world trade. For the first time, nations are selling goods and services to each other at a rate of more than $200 billion a year. The flow reached $209 billion in this year's third quarter, an increase of 8% in the past twelve months. Altogether, the industrial nations increased their exports by 116% in the past decade...
...opposing this, I do not wish for a moment to suggest limiting the rights of individual Faculty members to share the Putnam position. This, however, is very different from committing the Faculty as a whole to it, with the implication that the members who dissented were not cognizant of the moral obligations of a University Faculty. Talcott Parsons Professor of Sociology
After a very close vote, SDS also resolved to recommend to the group that does gather before the Faculty debate to try to get into the meeting, even if its location is switched at the last moment. But SDS members emphasized that no definite political tactics could be decided upon because no one knew how many students would turn up on Thursday...