Word: p
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF BALTHAZAR B, by J. P. Donleavy. A rich, dreamy young man wanders rudderless through a series of touchingly humorous misadventures. The author's best novel since The Ginger...
Nixon's choice of William P. Rogers as his Secretary of State offered no clue. Rogers is proud that his record is unmarked by a single public statement on Viet Nam. But when Nixon last week named Henry Cabot Lodge, his 1960 running mate, to be chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, it seemed to many that the new Administration was at last tipping its hand. Lodge, who twice served as U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, was the instrument of American power in Viet Nam at crucial moments of the war. A number of commentators argued that his selection...
Thomas W. Cooper and Mitchell P. Marcus drew up a 20 question survey and sent it to the 200 member ROTC contingent. They hoped "the questionnaire would supply the general public, specifically SDS and ROTC instructors, with some concrete facts about the thinking of a ROTC student," Cooper said...
...telephone and to work out a full-time teaching appointment for me with other departments. Given its priorities, the extremely peculiar budgetary constraints placed on it, and the financial situation of GSAS, it simply could not have come close to matching other offers I received. George P. Lakoff Lecturer in Linguistics
...much too short session. Some of the sketches are not as funny as others, but the great majority of them have a generous share of gags. Many fresh comic observations are brought to such topics as topless restaurants, Anglo-French rivalry, State Department press conferences, senility and even C. P. Snow ("known to writers as a scientist and known to scientists as a writer"). One of the longest and funniest monologues is that of a BBC-television sports broadcaster, who corrects an error by informing his audience that a skier "placed third in the competition--not twenty-third...