Word: perishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Union, which represents itself as free, can commit the same acts of aggression in Czechoslovakia as the U.S., which also claims it is free, does in Asia. I can only hope that Czechoslovakia's progress toward realizing a blend of Communist economics with humanist politics will not perish. Long live a free Czechoslovakia...
...Tarzan of the title is Baron Wolfgang von Hoppe (Rudolf Hruŝínsky), whose parents take him to the African jungle around the turn of the century to escape the sinks of civilization. Vati and Mutti promptly perish, of course, and little Wolfgang grows up among the apes. Captured by hunters some time in the '30s, he returns to the family Schloss, where the estate is being run by his rascally cousin Heinrich (Martin Ružek). Heinrich hires an English governess called Regina (Jana Štěpaňková) to give the ape-baron enough...
...hustings, Pompidou plugged the Gaullist theme that France must polarize or perish. Campaigning in his bleak, mountainous home region of Cantal, he explained: "The choice is simple, dear friends. It must be made between totalitarian Communism and liberty and democracy." Meanwhile, all across France, Gaullist campaign workers sought to rekindle the revulsion that the average Frenchman felt toward the June violence by showing a specially prepared 30-minute film of the rioting on the Left Bank. In city after city, some 8,000 student volunteers, who call themselves "Youth for Progress," worked frantically for De Gaulle, painting Gaullist slogans...
Kaysen is definitely not the fund-raising, nine-to-five type, but he thinks the adventure is worth it: a community of scholars free to think without the pressures of classes and graduate students and the publish-or-perish syndrome. Much of his administrative work is dull, but Kaysen is willing to endure it for a chance to transform some of his ideas into reality...
...science, both physical and social. But now, unfortunately, scientific advance seems to contribute more to our capabilities for destroying civilization than to building a better world. The scientist, by tradition reserving judgment on the moral implications of his work, will continue to publish, and perhaps we shall all perish...