Word: poses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck tries to recover his angry young manner with a blast at the affluent society. Unfortunately, the book contains more pose than passion, and the moral anathema sounds curiously like late-middle-aged petulance...
...also offered a dab of graceful deference. When cameramen shouted for another handshake, Kennedy turned to his interpreter: "Say to the Chairman that it is all right to shake hands if it is all right with him." Khrushchev beamed wider than ever, stuck out a fleshy hand for the pose. The formalities out of the way, the two men headed for the embassy's red and grey music room for their first talk. It, too, went well?luncheon was delayed for 30 minutes so the discussion could continue...
Toured Horizon. Kennedy's first stop is Paris where, in Charles de Gaulle, he will encounter a friend who may pose more difficult problems than most enemies. When De Gaulle was asked what he wished to discuss, he reportedly gave the grandiose reply: "Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America." The Paris talks will undoubtedly be a tour of the horizon. No settlement of differences can be expected because the time is too short and the divergence of views too great. What De Gaulle is essentially after is a greater voice for France in the top councils of the West...
...Theatre by a tumultuous standing ovation, "I don't deserve all that applause. After all, I'm just an ordinary sinful human being like anyone else." But it takes less faith in human nature than Seeger's to perceive that his personal warmth and sincrcity on stage is no pose...
...have to consider Bogart, beyond his affectionate and effacing pose as the achieved (intellectual equals impotent) orgasm, as an escape peculiar to the adolescent, (and his academic older brother, the scholar who nourishes his adolescent awareness for the rest of his emotional days) then we're ready for a final justification that ought to serve to appease the angers of those already offended by the members of clay so far revealed. Ultimate consideration of the Bogart mystique as the Bildungsroman for an age that takes cheerily to names and literary sorrow from the post-war boys (Mailer, Salinger, Kerouac...