Word: reopen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dreary Standstill. Despite Mao's order to reopen the schools last year, many are still closed; those that are open teach little more than Maoist slogans. China's cultural life has been brought to a dreary standstill by the Cultural Revolution; not a single book of any major value has been published for two years, and the only new play that showed promise, The Madman of the New Age, was condemned by the critics as an oblique attack...
...Hurry. The U.S. has kept meticulously silent over events in Czechoslovakia for fear of further embarrassing Dubček before his Communist neighbors. Last week, though, the State Department said that it was watching the liberalization with "interest and sympathy," even expressed willingness to reopen talks about $20 million worth of Czechoslovak gold confiscated from the Nazis toward the end of World War II. The U.S. has refused to return the bullion without some compensation for $72 million in American properties that the Communists nationalized in 1948. At week's end, the Dubček regime rebuffed the offer...
...With permission from Glidrose Productions, owners of Fleming's copyrights, who are obviously hoping to reopen the Bond gold mine, Amis is writing as "Robert Markham," although the reason is obscure. His real name is given right under the pen name, making one long for the good old days when pseudonyms were really pseudo...
...concessions to the church; he is now living in the Vatican. Without fully suppressing it, the party has harassed the church for 19 years, even appoints the priests for some dioceses. Bishop Tomasek's letter also asked Dubcek to begin talks between the government and the bishops, to reopen religious orders and remove restrictions on seminaries...
...Student Bar Association of Howard's law school is also seeking an injunction: this one against the university officials to compel them to reopen the school...