Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belmondo falls deeply and unrequit edly in love with Sophia Loren. All he manages to do by the end of the film is lead the Germans out of the valley and then die by the double-crosser's bullets. Show me a law-school-bound Harvard scholar who can resist such...
...minutes by a tumultuous turnout rivaling the one that greeted John Kennedy in 1960. It took 80 minutes to inch 25 blocks to the Seagram Building, where Hubert lunched with $ 1,000-a-year Democratic contributors at the elegant Four Seasons restaurant. Hubert just couldn't resist slowing things down even more by halting the motorcade several times to harangue the crowds through a portable loudspeaker. "This is perfect Democratic weather," he jubilated. "The sun is high! The sky is clear...
Last spring the rest of the U.S. settled back to watch the South suffer: if the civil rights bill failed to pass in Congress, people reasoned, frustrated Negroes certainly would step up their revolution; if it did pass, Southern whites certainly would resist every effort to test the new law. Either way, violence would spread. Yet, as it turned out at summer's end, it was the North that had been racked by riots. And - with the ignoble exceptions of Alabama and Mississippi - the South's racial summer added up to a surprising plus. Items...
...wife was boss, and her weak-willed husband was content to play the subservient role-until he had a few drinks. Then "role alternation" would take place, and the husband would insist belligerently upon his conjugal rights. The wife, whose father had usually been a wife beater, would resist. The ensuing fight had, however, helpful overtones. "The periods of violent behavior by the husband," the doctors observed, "served to release him momentarily from his anxiety about his ineffectiveness as a man, while giving his wife apparent masochistic gratification and helping probably to deal with the guilt arising from the intense...
...minutes." She can perform anything she likes, so one night she played a Boccherini piece, another night Bach. At 15 minutes, during "a long pause," she is free to do whatever she wants and made dark plans to give Poet Ginsberg a much needed shave, "if he does not resist too much...