Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confident that the talks will not turn into another Panmunjom. They argue that Lyndon Johnson would not have proposed the talks, and renounced a second term, until he was fairly certain that they would yield some results. They also maintain that Moscow might well have encouraged that view, and note that Xuan Thuy is well known as a member of Hanoi's pro-Soviet faction. In any case, Harriman emphasized when asked whether the U.S. had put a time limit on the talks: "None whatsoever." He and Vance, he added, were "both determined to remain for the duration, whatever...
...plays the same solos through again, note for note. They are all that he has learned so far. Except for them, he can barely pick out a scale...
Backed by a quintet that includes his brothers, he begins to play. The style, limned in his characteristic parallel octaves, is mellower, more melodic than before; but every note still throbs with bluesy feeling. The purists start snapping their fingers in spite of themselves, and they join the pop, rock, and rhythm-and-blues fans in applauding...
...Make a note of the name of Nixdorf," read advertisements that have been appearing in West German news papers. By such direct promotion, a stripling in the computer field has established its own European image among such veterans as IBM, Machines Bull and Siemens. With only 700 employees in a factory in the Westphalian town of Paderborn, Nixdorf still sells two out of every three small digital computers bought in West Germany. At the annual Hannover fair, Nixdorf's first-time display became a magnet for Germans interested in business machines; of the fairgoers who visited the Nixdorf booth...
...disgust with the tautologies of higher education, especially in the so-called humanities and social sciences. It is feared that in these areas the university has become a subsidized barrier separating the idealism of youth from the affluence of middle-class, middle-aged, virtue. Without striking too shrill a note, it might be accurate to say that there is an awareness and dissatisfaction with the methods of indoctrination which the speculative and historical sciences have imposed on college students. The university is no longer the ivory citadel of disinterest for which it has so long been rebuked. Would that...