Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coalition headed by Kasavubu, who has been cooperating with Belgians recently. He controls only 12 of the Lower House's 137 seats (v. 36 for Lumumba), but with Belgian help might attract enough support from among the 18 other elected parties to form a coalition government. In pursuit of this scheme, Kasavubu last week flew to Brussels to dicker with Belgium's Minister of the Congo and to call on young King Baudouin, who is scheduled to open the Congo's first Parliament at the end of the month, provided the country does not explode into bloody...
...father, the late Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, forced him to give up two hazardous pastimes: steeplechase riding and auto racing. But Aly continued his pursuit of speed and danger: three skiing accidents nearly cost him a leg; when he was only 21, and without a pilot's license, he took his turn at the controls of a light plane in an unprecedented 10,000-mile flight from Bombay to Singapore and back. Aly Khan slew quantities of lions, tigers and water buffalo, but always on foot and never from the safety...
...Pursuit. In Nashville, Tenn., while Traffic Cop T. J. Slowey hid behind a tree, watching for speeders, his motorcycle caught fire under him, burned...
...really recognize Mr. Ratoff and his film. It's just a quickie." Retorted Old Hollywood Hand Ratoff in his fractured English: "Hokay. The blawdy baddle is on." The squabble, snickered the London Evening Standard, would have been laughed off by "the Great Oscar himself" as "the pursuit by the unspeakable of the unfilmable." Chortled the London Daily Express: "May the worst side...
...Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, are sexless. Even in The Scarlet Letter, the "A" might as well stand for anticlimax, for all passion is spent before the novel begins. Instead of depicting love and marriage, the U.S. writer customarily projects a spectral landscape dominated by death, pursuit and flight. The U.S. novel does not derive its power from skill, according to Fiedler, or from its vaunted realism (from Poe to Nathanael West, it is often surreal), but from something like Jung's "collective unconscious...