Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political heirs of Mao and Chiang themselves. Peking could eventually decide that, like Hong Kong, an autonomous Taiwan could be a useful portal to the world. With one of the strongest economies in Asia, Taiwan could not only survive but prosper even more by trading with its giant neighbor...
...gentleman farmer was finally pushed to his decision by the murder of three Scots soldiers two weeks ago (TIME, March 22). Protestants reacted to the deaths with anti-government demonstrations. Chichester-Clark responded by flying to London to request additional troops and to ask that soldiers occupy Catholic neighbor hoods in Belfast and Londonderry to guarantee order. Prime Minister Edward Heath gave Chichester-Clark only 1,300 more men and refused to allow the army to take the kind of stern measures that might have appeased the Irish Prime Minister's right-wing critics...
...Philip seems to personify a biblical adage in reverse. He cannot love his neighbor (or his fiancée) like himself because he does not love himself. Celia leaves him, which makes good sense but rather flat drama. What redeems the evening is McCowen's acting. He has a feel for the role that is as sensitive as a safecracker's fingertips. At one moment he is the bemused absent-minded professor, at another the twinkling champion of verbal pingpong, and at still another, an anguished human with a parched heart...
...civilization, Victor must finally accept love on his captor's terms, thereby closing off the possibilities of life that had been his in the forest. By the conclusion of Bed and Board, Antoine and Christine have transformed their relationship into an apparently mindless mechanism, causing their next-door neighbor to remark to her husband that the newlyweds are now "really in love...
...consensus of a homogeneous congregation that will respond to the preacher's demands. "Well, here we are again," Michael Walzer began. But it didn't work. His "we" was too highly suspect, for the only common denominator in the hall was a common distrust. One turned to his neighbor and, instead of a reassuring glance, found him virtually unrecognizable. How could those in front of you applaud McCarthy? Why did those in back not hiss down Riegle? Walzer himself, however expertly, played the game, balancing the boos and hisses off against the applause...