Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement also includes a proviso that the government should take the initiative "for itself and the West" on all questions directly affecting Germany-even to the point of accepting Germany-wide disarmament and neutrality as a possible basis for reunification. Konrad Adenauer will ignore such far-out conditions when he sits down with President Kennedy next week. As in the past, he will reject recognition of East Germany and of East Germany's Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland. On the issue of a neutralized Germany, the doughty old Chancellor has made it clear that he will never budge...
...British royal family's ambitious Triumph of Caesar, which Charles I bought, is in such poor condition that it could not be sent at all. Spain was mysteriously uncooperative. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was prevented from lending its Madonna because of the donor's proviso, and the Museum of Art in Copenhagen decided to keep its Christ Seated on a Sarcophagus because it is so popular with tourists...
Moving in to take advantage of this split, Reuther himself settled down to secret negotiations with American Motors. At week's end, the company agreed to give the U.A.W. everything it wanted in a new three-year contract: cost-of-living and productivity increases, plus a proviso that 10% of American Motors' pre-tax profits will be paid out to workers (after the top 10% has been skimmed off for shareholders...
...seating both pro-Communist delegations, Britain and the U.S. agreed to a final position paper that contained a scribbled Rusk provision that the Laotians could sit only "as observers with the right to speak." Home showed the document to Gromyko, and they jointly announced complete agreement-but the scribbled proviso had somehow disappeared. Feeling betrayed and angry, Rusk cabled Kennedy, who reluctantly decided to go ahead with the conference rather than face the neutralist complaints that the U.S. was "obstructionist...
...swashbuckling, 2,000-line epic of Cortes in Conquistador to the modern morality play in J.B., MacLeish himself is tempted to an omnibus generalization on poetry: "'What is the meaning of all song?' Yeats asks himself, and answers, 'Let all things pass away.' " The implicit proviso is "except this poem," and MacLeish goes on to say: "To face the truth of the passing away of the world and make song of it, make beauty of it, is not to solve the riddle of our mortal lives but perhaps to accomplish something more." What is that evasive...