Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAYMOND SHASHOUA Haifa, Israel...
...RAYMOND SHEEHAN Providence...
...romantic revolution continues, and it is hard to imagine that it will not, its adherents will have to confront what Raymond Aron calls the "constraints of fact-the need for organization, for a technical hierarchy, for a techno-bureaucracy." These are the "givens" of current civilization that cannot be dreamed, wished or shouted away. That civilization, in its turn, will have...
Died. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, 83, World War II naval hero of the Battle of Midway, turning point of the Pacific war; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In June 1942, Spruance and Admiral Frank Fletcher led a task force of 353 warplanes and 50 fighting ships against a vastly superior Japanese armada, and in a three-day battle sank four of the imperial navy's carriers, thereby virtually destroying its main offensive punch...
Breslin's side-of-the-mouth humor proceeds from flat understatement followed immediately by clarifying overstatement: "Raymond the Wolf passed away in his sleep one night from natural causes; his heart stopped beating when the three men who slipped into his bedroom stuck knives in it." Occasionally he offers a bemused sociological insight: "Southern Italy is the same as the rest of the world. People stroke and polish machines while goats urinate in their houses." The trouble is that after a while the joke, like chewing gum on a bedpost, loses its flavor...