Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many concessions to blacks already?concessions that whites must pay for. The American middle feels it is a victim of excessively rapid change. Richard Nixon saw that last year. City politicians are not missing the point either...
Lindsay's strategy in these circumstances is to prove that he really is mindful of middle-class and working-class needs, that he is politically independent, that he is still a rallying point for the forces of good government. Many prominent Democrats have come out for Lindsay, and he has endorsed the candidacies of a number of Democrats running for local office who have so far remained uncommitted to him. Rather than emphasizing traditional street campaigning and set speeches, Lindsay has been using the perquisites of office to make points. He has been appearing at groundbreaking ceremonies and assorted dedications...
Asahi Shimbun Correspondent lyeshige Akioka visited Tung Chi University in Shanghai this month, he discovered that there would be graduating classes this year and next-but none after that. No one seemed to know when enrollment would resume. Factional clashes became brutal; at one point in the struggle, corpses floated down the Pearl River from Canton and washed ashore in Hong Kong. Mao finally backed down and called in the army to restore control...
Ahmedabad soon swarmed with refugees. At one point, 20,000 Moslems crowded into the city stadium. Seven days after the riots began, a grim Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) drove silently past Ahmedabad's blackened buildings, then returned to New Delhi and summoned the heads of India's states to discuss ways of avoiding future Ahmedabads. Her advice might well be the same as Gandhi's admonition to his Congress Party members 44 years ago: "Go throughout your districts, and spread the message of Hindu-Moslem unity...
Goethe lifted the Faust legend into the realm of cosmic philosophizing. Philosophy, though, is a literary rather than a musical exercise. Music can, on occasion, state a case, but it cannot argue the point. In the end, Boito simply tried to present more Goethe than any composer could hope to cope with...