Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cartoonist named Axel Rex emerges out of Margot's past, and his urbane chitchat somehow convinces Albinus that three is no crowd. Besides, Axel stills Albinus' qualms with a ploy at least as old as Restoration comedy: he confides to Albinus that he is really a homosexual. Soon clouds mass amid the comic lightning. After a series of tragic plot incidents, Albinus drives into a telephone pole, but lives on, blinded. What follows is more climactic and cruel than the book's actual ending. Axel silently shares the house and Margot, while the pair mulct the pitiable...
...office of Secretary-General with a three-headed executive composed of one Westerner, one Communist and one neutralist was more than just a scheme to get rid of Dag Hammarskjold and reduce the U.N. to impotence; it was also calculated to appeal to neutralist vanities. So was the disarmament ploy that he unveiled at midweek: an offer to resume the discussions that Russia walked out of last June, provided that the ten-nation Disarmament Committee was expanded by five to include Indonesia, Mexico, Ghana. India and the U.A.R. Outside the Assembly chamber, Khrushchev tirelessly wooed such neutralists as Yugoslavia...
Last week, in the Soviet monthly Novy Mir, the Kremlin devised the subtlest ploy yet to put the bumptious Chinese back in their ideological place. Russia, too, wrote Veteran Soviet Economist Stanislav Strumilin, 83, plans to have agricultural communes-but not until 1980-85. And unlike Red China's jampacked, hardscrabble farms (see above), Russia's communes would be proletarian pleasure palaces whose 2,400 inhabitants would enjoy every amenity from lavish restaurants to beauty parlors for the ladies. Then, driving Nikita's stiletto deep into Mao's back, Economist Strumilin blandly opined: "Of course, such...
...summit a watershed in Nikita Khrushchev's regime? Had he seized on the U-2 to scrap his policy of rapprochement with the U.S. while loudly blaming the U.S. for its failure? It seemed so. Apparently, Nikita Khrushchev was abandoning his detente policy as a ploy that had failed, and reverting to the old Stalinist policy of toughness...
...much of a good thing, and Humphrey's all-out liberal record may prove to be a handicap. "He's so liberal he'd sell the Capitol," commented a West Virginia Democrat last week. To push his own campaign along, Kennedy plans to use a special ploy: he is a certified war hero-an important credential in a state where American Legion and V.F.W. halls are important social-gathering centers. Before the campaign's end, Kennedy hopes to have his picture, in Navy uniform with ribbons, displayed in every V.F.W. and American Legion clubhouse and office...