Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reforms were moving so fast that at week's end the party felt obliged to sound a note of caution. Conscious of the apprehension of the Soviet Union and other Communist neighbors, the Central Committee passed a resolution warning of the dangers of two extremes. On the one hand, the resolution declared the party's firm intention of preventing a return to the era before Dubček's takeover; on the other, it cautioned the people against trying to go back to the days before Communism...
Dramatic & Chaotic. It did note, however, that a different conclusion might be reached in the case of "a special-purpose unit of government assigned the performance of functions affecting definable groups of constituents more than other constituents." If, for instance, the commissioners in Midland had been concerned only with rural roadbuilding, apportionment "in ways which give greater influence to the citizens most affected" might be permissible. The court also recalled two of its decisions last term (TIME, June 2): one, citing the "basically appointive" nature of a county board of education, approved its selection by delegates elected from districts...
Getting better in every game, the Crimson overpowered C.W. Post, 9-6, and Rutgers, 8-7, before bowing to mighty Navy 14-3, and small college power Washington 10-7. Rebounding from their defeat by Washington, Harvard crushed Adelphi 10-4, to end the trip on a winning note...
...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...
Pavese feared impotence, was never happy in love, and failed for the last time with a young U.S. movie actress. In his suicide note he wrote: "Don't gossip." But of course everyone did-and not, perhaps, simply about the unsuccessful love affair. For Pavese's complex character has left friends and critics guessing ever since. These novels prompt the suspicion that he suffered from a sense of personal inadequacy compounded by postwar disillusionment. He had a Hamlet streak in him too wide to live with...