Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost of about $80,000, the I.A.C.F. gave the incoming Nixon Administration a searching set of speculations about the state of the U.S. today and where it is heading. France's Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, journalist and author of the bestselling The American Challenge, voiced a note of urgency in opening the conference. "America, as the leading industrial power, is the crucial battlefield," he said. "The crisis you are living through we will have to face in the future." Some of the matters discussed...
...Kunstler's admirers, many of them highly respected lawyers, note that what is nonsense today often makes sense tomorrow. "My impression is that the most creative things in the law usually sound unacceptable and unlikely," says Professor Leroy Clark of New York University Law School. "This is the creative side of Kunstler. He comes up with things that make you think...
...that he wrote, in the November Harper's, a brilliantly brooding poetic fantasy, The Eye-Beaters. It was made particularly jolting because of Dickey's marginal notations, written with the stark understatement of a wire-service reporter. "A therapist explains why the children strike their eyes," the note explains as fact. Then...
...sales will surpass the all-time peak of 9,300,000 set in 1965. Purists may note that this year's total will include about a million imports, way up from 600,000 in 1965, but that scarcely diminishes the cheer at the Detroit Athletic Club. All the automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share...
...note of exhortation: the writing style, high socrelese, is not impenetrable. On the contrary, should one absorb the idiom it can be remarkably effective. It is worth the effort...