Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western alliance, as usu al, seemed in disarray, and practical moves toward Western European unity were for the time being suspended. Yet the relentless logic of what Harold Macmillan called Europe's new Renaissance made it plain that union will come, and that it will strengthen the alliance...
Just Keeping Busy. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer growled no to almost the entire list of suggestions. He seemed more receptive than before to the idea of an inter national access authority, but he thought the plebiscite idea was just plain silly, utterly rejected the idea of making West Berlin a part of West Germany and stationing Bonn troops there. Adenauer's reasoning: any West German participation in the defense of Berlin will undermine the concept of four-power occupation control of the city, which, fiction or not, he still considers the basis of Western presence in Berlin...
...decadence, cautiously found the opening night a "big success." But the response of the crowds on the second night, when Balanchine's dancers repeated the program in the new Kremlin Palace of Congresses, indicated that it was considerably more than that. Young Russian dancers, ballet students and just plain fans crowded to the stage at evening's end and clapped until the lights were turned off. One source of amazement to the Russians, accustomed to illustrious but superannuated dancers loath to abandon the footlights, was the extreme youth of the Balanchine company: the youngest...
...once marched forward into cocktail parties with abandon, hands outstretched and mouths dry, now find themselves skulking around doorways, trying to remember whom to kiss and whom not to (skip the wife's slinky onetime roommate, don't forget the host's plain sister). General rule is to leave the initiative to the woman. The man's problem is to be ready for a kiss, but not so far committed that he cannot smoothly recover if he is offered only a hand. And he must be clear about the target area-a few inches forward...
From the outside, the accelerator complex is unimpressive, almost inconspicuous. The administrative building and surface structures are the same as those of other recent laboratory plain and boxlike, with large glass windows. The accelerator itself, with its grassy ramparts leading to bare concrete walls, appears more like a waterworks than anything else...