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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means to saw, »»»>»»» to rub, ^ to use a mallet, and f f f to tap the chair with the bow. Sometimes he even uses plain old-fashioned musical notes...
...plain language, Volpe's announcement means one one of two things is going to happen. After the election, his administration is going to wait some convenient length of time (perhaps as long as several months) and then simply announce that Brookline-Elm is still the best choice. Or--and this is what opponents of Brookline-Elm obviously want--he is going to make a complete reversal and choose the Portland-Albany St. route...
...give leadership in the expected sense. There are no rules of procedure, no agenda. In this planned vacuum, minus labels, titles and props, each member demonstrates his "life style" simply by talking. The authoritarian sounds bossy, the abdicator yields in arguments, the critic criticizes, and it is all supposedly plain-often painfully plain to the subject himself-when the others' observations of him begin to "feed back." If things go well, a kind of agape results. If not, the practice can be dangerous: nervous breakdowns have occasionally resulted from the intense personal exposure. These sensitivity sessions have developed...
...province. So far the Reds have failed. Over the past few months, Hanoi's hordes have shifted away from their old infiltration route, the Ho Chi Minh trail, which empties into the isolated Central Highlands. Instead, more and more have been striking directly southward into the populous coastal plain (see map). The aim of the Marines' "Operation Prairie" is to cut those arteries from the DMZ and push the Reds so far west that they will once again be forced to use the trail...
...time when novelty in religion is becoming the new orthodoxy, the good father is trying hard to be just plain pop. A onetime atheist, he was ordained in 1955, won quick notoriety and ecclesiastical disapproval by hearing "informal" confessions in bars and writing plays peppered with cuss words. He maintains that "you've got to begin with people where they are" and feels that a bar stool can be an effective pulpit...