Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Temple Fielding is a symbol of everything wrong with our society-superficial, antiseptic and self-righteous. In an increasingly complex and sensitive world, Fielding sends forth his legions of bores, who would rather pinch and proposition-than listen and understand...
...coalition government in South Viet Nam before elections are held?one of the ten N.L.F, points announced May 8. Creation of the provisional government may also embarrass Thieu. He has reluctantly offered to talk with the N L.F , but he might renege if it meant dealing with a self-proclaimed regime that purports to be more legitimate than his own. Thieu denounced the N.L.F, move as "a fabrication concocted by a group of people who take cover in jungles without daring to disclose their location." It is, he said, "a propaganda trick" that has changed nothing...
...three policemen who, with state troopers and National Guardsmen, rushed into the Algiers Motel seeking a reported sniper. They rounded up nine young Negro men and two teen-age white prostitutes. When the lawmen left, three of the Negroes were dead. August admitted shotgunning Auburey Pollard, 19, but claimed self-defense. He was charged with first-degree murder. Last week an all-white jury took the white patrolman's word...
...troops intruded into Sinkiang for no ostensible reason. They killed one shepherd, kidnaped another, and brought large numbers of tanks and armored cars onto Chinese soil in an effort to "provoke still larger armed conflicts," said Peking. After the Russians refused to "talk reason," Chinese troops fought back in self-defense, but the situation was still "developing," the Chinese protest to Moscow added ominously...
...local underworld scene. What started out as a whodunit winds up as a "Who-am-I?" Separated from his home, and a victim of a sense of alienation to boot, the detective begins to identify with the missing husband and yearn for his own wife, to the point of self-return: "No good hunter pursues his quarry too far," he rationalizes. "Rather he puts himself in his quarry's place as he looks for the path of flight; by pursuing himself he corners his quarry...