Word: referring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London. In the rest of the world, it is very lightly staffed. It has one man in Washington, one in Paris, one in Bonn, and one in Vienna who covers all of Eastern Europe. Elsewhere it relies on stringers, often heavily edited in London. All articles are unsigned; staffers refer to their brand of journalism as "consultative...
...angriest editorials it has printed in years, the Times of London asked: "If Colonel Lohan was cleared, why refer to the inquiry? If it found against him, then how did he remain in his post until 1967?" Against tactics like Wilson's, said the Times, "so pitiless, so adroit, so lacking in scruple, so strongly enhanced by the authority of a Prime Minister's office, no man's character is safe...
...Royal Ballet, which old fans still nostalgically refer to as the Sadler's Wells Ballet, opened with Romeo and Juiet. The company has filmed the ballet with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn, truly the most remarkable pair in the ballet world. Dame Morgot, now 48, dances the role of the 14-year-old Juliet with an unmatchable combination of grace and young ardor. Nureyev has often been likened to the legendary Nijinsky, le Dieu de la Danse, as the Edwardians called him before he went...
Wealth & Heresy. Even today, some of McCracken's old parishioners still refer to Riverside as "Fosdick's church," and with some reason: it was built for him by John D. Rockefeller Jr. After Fosdick, charged with heresy, had resigned from Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church in 1925, Rockefeller offered him the pulpit of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, of which he was a trustee. When Fosdick hesitated, Rockefeller asked him why. "Because I do not want to be known as the pastor of the richest man in the country," Fosdick said. Answered Rockefeller: "Do you think more...
...newest and most insistent declarations are from young men in their early twenties. They want a hand in running the programs. Some of the older leaders of the community refer to them as "radicals," but they dismiss the term. They are not the self-appointed spokesmen for the poor, they report. "We are the poor," says one. "Maximum feasible participation' means me, baby." They have demanded at least some power; they already have...