Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Havana's government-operated television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied...
Thus the old electoral system, which has the great advantage of being an established ritual, is the best, and it is clearly in the interests of liberals to retain it. Leading the Senate fight against an electoral reform proposal in '56, Kennedy produced an apt quote for liberals to ponder: "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Columbia University Professor C. Wright Mills and former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. ponder U.S. policies toward Latin America and Cuba...
...last big shelling). Though U.S. policy has at times been wobbly as well as ambiguous, Quemoy and Matsu, garrisoned with 100,000 Chinese Nationalist troops, are still free-a fair measure of the power of the bristling question mark that the U.S. has raised for the Communists to ponder...
...influence the design of American automobiles. The museum is aware of its power. But what should museums do? Abandon their concern with recent art. . .? In conclusion, may I propose that reluctant 'tastemakers' like me and those like you who exaggerate the power of 'tastemakers' both ponder Aesop's fable of two flies who, perched upon the axletree of a chariot, complacently remarked to each other: 'What a dust we do raise...