Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alliance was also strong in the Middle East, where a number of oil states-including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain-learned of plans to pull back Britain's 6,000 troops guarding the Persian Gulf oil route, probably in 1971. Britain even placed its European commitments under review, especially the Rhine Army of 52,000, whose continued presence in West Germany seemed more dependent on German offers to offset costs than anything else. In fact, as Defense Minister Denis Healey watched his establishment mercilessly pared, he must have wondered somewhat whether his entire ministry...
...Bridgewater Superintendent Charles A. Gaughan, among others. In the petition, the state's attorney general, Eliot Richardson, charged that Wiseman invaded the inmates' privacy by photographing them nude during "skin searches" for contraband. Richardson also claimed that he broke an agreement to submit the film for review and approval and assured Bridgewater officials that Titticut was being made only for educational purposes. Instead, Wiseman showed the film at the New York Film Festival last September first. What's more, he booked it into at least two commercial theaters in New York City and sold U.S. and Canadian...
...crazy! That's absurd"). But the vehemence only testifies to the fact that the men involved think and feel deeply. They respond to each other from positions of strength and conviction. Paul Weiss, 66, is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale, founder and longtime editor of the Review of Metaphysics; he ranks among the leading speculative philosophers in the U.S. His son Jonathan, 28, is a pragmatic attorney and social activist who has earned a reputation as defender of the rights of juveniles and welfare recipients in Washington and New York. Together, father and son prove that the much...
...first taste of hostility came when he wrote an unfavorable Commentary review of The Adventures of Angle March, the 1953 novel by Family Favorite Saul Bellow. According to Podhoretz, Bellow's friends were apparently persuaded that the review was part of a subtle plot to discredit him. Three years later, a well-known American poet (the reader is never told who) accosted the young critic at a party and drunkenly threatened: "We'll get you for that review if it takes ten years." The book is everywhere littered with the hairs of such neighborhood cat fights, most...
...Down. For all its unpleasantness, the Bellow affair brought Podhoretz the attention he craved. He got review assignments from The New Yorker and Partisan Review, which enhanced his club membership. And like many other members, he carefully cultivated his status. Every morning, he would scan the invisible "stockmarket report" on reputations and measure the gains and losses. By implication, he suggests that other members did the same. "Did so-and-so have dinner at Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment last night? Up five points. Was so-and-so not invited by the Lowells to meet the latest visiting Russian poet...