Word: reassertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself; Roca, listed No. 5, was the only old Communist named. Cuba would now have a Vice Premier to take over in case anything happened to the Maximum Leader himself: he would be Raul Castro, Fidel's brother. Then Castro went on TV to denounce the Reds and reassert his own leadership. He could not lambaste Roca (he was too strong), but he lashed out at Roca's lieutenant, Anibal Escalante, purged him from O.R.I, and drove him into exile in Czechoslovakia. Bias Roca himself dropped out of sight on an "inspection tour" of the provinces...
Oxford's Sir Kenneth Clark respects and admires the faceless art of abstract expressionism, but he does not think it will be around forever. At Wellesley last week, he prophesied: "The imitation of external reality is a fundamental human instinct which is bound to reassert itself." To prove his point. Sir Kenneth talked about two kinds of painters-apes and children-whom the crudest of critics like to lump with the abstract expressionists...
Despite his pessimism, Griswold is hopeful that "the service-station concept of the university" may pass. "Some people in many of our state universities," he notes, are at least trying to reassert "the original and timeless philosophical claims of liberal education." But much less hopeful is the appended "comment" by Robert M. Hutchins, former president of the University of Chicago and now head of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. As an example of "crude pressure and bribery," Hutchins cites Michigan State's "four-year course leading to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major...
...resigned as armed forces chief of staff, and a communiqué in his own handwriting said that he had boarded the Angelita and sailed for Europe. At week's end Secretary of State Rusk announced worriedly: "It appears that [Héctor and Arismendi] may be planning to reassert dictatorial domination. In view of the possibility of political disintegration, the Government of the U.S. is considering further measures." Rusk's aides added that the U.S. would act unilaterally outside the framework of the OAS if necessary. Presumably, the further measures that Rusk was talking about were military...
...luxury is increasingly based not on goods but on service. Tipping seeks to buy that feeling -usually in vain. In crowded restaurants, in huge, barracks-like apartment buildings, at the mercy of deliverymen or repairmen, in dozens of other situations that make the individual powerless, he seeks feebly to reassert himself through tipping...