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Dates & Limits. In his own climactic speech, Frei cut loose all of the pent-up frustration of three years. "I do not pretend to be the owner or the boss of the party," he said. "This could never be the attitude of a man who owes everything to the party." He had always, Frei said, discussed the main issues with members, and had invited them to his home for talks. "You must remember," he stressed, "that I have the responsibility of administering the country. You must not forget, dear companions, that the constitution has some regulations about dates and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Bid for Control | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

Once the two women appear on the scene, they dominate the play perceptibly and strike plangent chords of passion and pity. Clytemnestra is the first to learn of her raddled husband's purpose. She spews at him the clotted venom of years of pent-up hate in a bad marriage; yet what chokes her spirit is anguish for her child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: OFF BROADWAY | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...clever Ibos in the East. In January 1966, five years after independence, a group led by Eastern army officers toppled the Northern-dominated regime of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and exposed the raw nerves of those ancient rivalries. Northerners countered with a coup that installed Gowon, and their pent-up fury exploded in the massacre of thousands of Ibos living in the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Declaration of Independence | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...accident unleashes the pent-up violence of sexual longing and onrushing age. Bogarde coldly proceeds to make love to the benumbed girl, then smuggles her back to the safety of her dorm, protecting her from the police who will never know that it was she who drunkenly drove the boy to his death. At film's end, the princess leaves Oxford to fly home. Baker, the self-confident Don Juan, proves to be an ineffectual wan don, unable to stop her. Bogarde resignedly returns to his pipe, his books, his stoic, sad-eyed wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: X-Ray Treatment | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...elected, Galbraith hopes to use ADA as "a voice for the pent-up feelings people have about the government and to strengthen the voice of the academic community in government affairs." He emphatically denied speculation that he hopes to move the academic community toward the Kennedy wing of the Democratic party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith to Take Top ADA Post, Denies Vietnam Prompted Decision | 3/28/1967 | See Source »

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