Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters do say things which describe them as people. But they are so boxed up with themselves and blunted by past obliviousness, that they expect little sympathy and give none. Each character cherishes a scheme which will somehow give birth to his personality: one brother has a minute plan for decorating the room, the other wants to build a shed out back, and the bum is always about to go down to Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments...
...prospect of keeping Red China within the pale of the Communist movement. Nikita was threatening to make things hot for independent-minded Rumanian Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, whose refusal to turn his oil-rich nation into a "gas station" for Comecon threw Khrushchev's bloc-wide economic scheme out of kilter...
...that reason he opposes MLF, the U.S.-backed scheme for internationally manned, nuclear-equipped surface ships that would give European nations a sense of participation in nuclear defense but still leave with the U.S. President the actual decision to use the missiles. At an eleven-hour foreign-policy debate in the French assembly, Couve de Murville in effect argued that MLF is a phony, that it would divide and not unite Europe. He was particularly angry at Bonn, which had accepted MLF as well as virtually every other U.S. plan, while being increasingly cool to De Gaulle's policies...
...French-controlled nuclear force would be a truly integrated European army with its own nuclear capacity. But De Gaulle dislikes the idea of such integration, and Washington dislikes the idea of giving up its nuclear veto. If the U.S. persists with the MLF scheme-which Britain's Labor government may accept, although with modifications-the French hint that they might pull out of NATO...
...those less planning-conscious days, this scheme seemed like something out of Jules Verne ? after all, the railroad owned the land, which was already zoned for profitable high-rise office buildings. But prestigious Robert...