Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Test. Understandably, Ruggles has inflicted more than a few wounds in his time. One sympathetic but forthright neighbor admits that the old fellow is "downright quarrelsome." And even one of his most loyal friends, Mrs. Henry Cowell, widow of the composer, concedes that "sometimes his profanity got a little tiring." But all that was forgotten at the Bennington affair. Vermont's Governor Philip Hoff gave Ruggles a medal and friends made speeches. Carl was able to hear the whole thing over a loudspeaker in his nursing home near...
...label the comparison between the U.S. intervention in Viet Nam and the Soviet Union's intervention in Czechoslovakia [Sept. 20] "hardly exact, since the U.S. intervened in Viet Nam in order to rescue an established government from subversion while the Soviets invaded a friendly neighbor in order to undermine a government that was struggling to gain a measure of independence and freedom." Yet I'm sure the Soviets feel that they are the ones who are rescuing an established regime from subversion, and that it is the U.S. who is undermining a struggle for independence...
...seems to have a way of producing wondering, self-exploratory conversations. "It is like being married," said one hat wearer. "No," replied another. "It is more like being tied with the same umbilical cord." "Do you feel you have to participate?" one hat wearer asked his neighbor last week. "Yes," she replied. "Otherwise I'll lose my hat." "Lose my hat!" repeated Byars with delight. "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard...
...After all, his father killed himself. He was obsessed by the "spoliation of nature"-human and mineral-in the once aristocratic Philadelphia suburb where the family lives. Charley, idle and lonely, powerfully infected by his father's preoccupation with decay, conceives a death wish of his own. A neighbor woman, an ancient relic of the town's past, wages a moral and psychological battle to exorcize it, finally succeeds by dying herself. But Charley lives on, haunted by the fear that he had really meant to kill...
Bright as Swaziland's material prospects are, the kingdom is, in a way, only exchanging the rule of Britain for the suzerainty of South Africa. Swaziland is surrounded on three sides by its giant white neighbor and is effectively dominated by it. South Africans already own or manage most of Swaziland's business and industry and hold much of the 44% of the country's land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass...