Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system of quid pro quo operates in this book just as much as in the author's sixteen earlier works. But in The Winthrop Covenant the contractual terms are explicit. Examining the lives of selected Winthrops through our American history, the novel, comprised of nine short stories, considers the pact each family member strikes with the world. The quo of the covenant drawn up by Auchincloss concerns the prerogatives bestowed on every Yankee WASP family by birthright: social position, wholesome looks, refined sensibility, fair intelligence and money...
...parity with the U.S. He reorganized the officer corps, introduced advanced technology to the armored forces, and successfully tested new conventional weapons -notably air defense missiles-in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Probably the Grechko achievement that worried Western commanders most was the strengthening and integration of Warsaw Pact forces...
...romance between China and Egypt came into full bloom last week. The two countries signed a pact under which Peking, in addition to supplying an undisclosed amount of military hardware to Cairo, will provide $50 million worth of strategic raw materials for Egyptian industry and boost Sino-Egyptian trade from $450 million in 1975 to more than $600 million this year. The signing of the agreement capped a six-day visit to Peking by Egyptian Vice President Hosny Mubarak. Declared the Egyptian at his farewell banquet in Peking: "She [China] proves not only by words but also by deeds that...
Major Foothold. China may benefit even more. The pact with Egypt provides a long-sought, major foothold for Peking in the Arab world. China has wanted to extend its influence into the Mediterranean for at least a decade. Until now its advances to the Arabs have been rebuffed, at least partly by Saudi Arabian suspicions of Communists and Egypt's need, in the face of massive Israeli military superiority, to acquire Soviet weapons technology. Concludes TIME Hong Kong Correspondent David Aikman: "In Peking, there must be only smiles. China has replaced Moscow as Egypt's ally...
...accomplices: poets, pataphysicians* and a few illiterates." Thus Max Ernst (tongue poked its usual quarter-length into one rubicund cheek) summed up his own career at the age of 68. "Accomplices" was the key word, for it is hard to look at a Max Ernst without feeling a pact between his secret language and one's own fantasies. The carnivorous or petrified landscapes, the enchanted pencil forests, the enigmatic rooms in which sinister things happen-these constitute a world on the other side of the mirror, access to which depends on an involuntary conspiracy with the artist...