Word: palling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bloodless Revolution. Today, Britain is in the midst of a bloodless revolution. This time, those who are giving way are the old Tory-Liberal Establishment that ruled the Empire from the clubs along Pall Mall and St. James's, the still-powerful financial City of London, the church and Oxbridge. In their stead is rising a new and surprising leadership community; economists, professors, actors, photographers, singers, admen, TV executives and writers-a swinging meritocracy. What they have in common is that they are mostly under 40 (Harold Wilson, at 50 the youngest P.M. of the century, is referred...
...Historically would resume as it did after the 1962 neutralization of Laos, because "when you bring the Communists in, you have one party using coercion as a means of influencing the people and the other party has to resort to the same." He settled back again and lit a Pall Mall...
...climb the Tree of Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there is no lure in any imaginable sort of "eternal life." The greatest happiness I have ever enjoyed would pall into unspeakable boredom in vastly less than fourscore years, let alone "eternity...
...remained for the 20-minute-long fifth movement, which one critic called "among the very greatest things that Mahler has left us," to lift the pall of futility. The doom-laden thump of a muffled drum, an idea that Mahler conceived one day when he heard the drums of a funeral procession passing his Manhattan apartment, intrudes repeatedly, driving back the forces of light. Then, unfurling slowly, the divergent strands of the opening themes are resolved in a finale of radiant transfiguration, ending as serenely as oncoming sleep - or death. "The Tenth" says Cooke, "holds the secret of Mahler...
...chart reading should pall and travel beckon, the U.S. Travel Service has advice about how best to go far, fast and inexpensively. While the Government has not yet taken a hand in promoting the citizen's social life, the Travel Service will arrange for visitors from abroad to stay in the home of almost any American who wants foreign company...