Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the only thing in strike-bound Paris that seemed to be moving slower than the traffic last week was the peace parley on Viet Nam. U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators held a single 2-hr. 57-min. session at the Hotel Majestic, then adjourned for four days. Hanoi was clearly bent on emulating the tactics of Fabius Cunctator (the delayer),* the Roman general who wore down the more powerful Hannibal by his endless harassing tactics. The long break was occasioned in part, a Hanoi spokesman explained, by the fact that Ascension Day was approaching, "and since we translate...
Jarvis began the first session, and every one after that, by asking if everyone had meditated that night. Yes, everyone had. "How was it?" he asked one girl in the first row. Well, she had been distracted by other thoughts, and by a record player in the room next to hers. Jarvis nodded knowingly, and said that outside noise, and thoughts, and feelings would not harm meditation. "How about if the speed of the mantra changes?" one fellow asked. Jarvis was pleased. "If the mantra changes speed, that is good," he answered. Another boy stood up and was really worried...
...essence, the debates amounted to a bizarre bull session, frequently floundering in chaos. "The trouble with the world is that youth isn't being listened to and isn't being used," complained Student Alain Bedu. One recurrent and oddly revealing idea-that formal examinations ought to be abolished-met friendly rebuttal from many professors who joined in the dialogues. "Ending exams is not reasonable," said Professor Alfred Kastler, Nobel-prizewinnmg physicist. "You would be the victims. It would lead you and the university to feudal capitalism: selection by the fortune of parents." Students of every persuasion were heard...
...Test. Dubcek himself was busy trying to counter a growing mobilization of the conservative, hard-lining Communist bureaucrats still scattered in key positions throughout the government and economy. His first really critical test looms at the end of this month, when he intends to summon a Central Committee plenary session and try to force the resignations of some of the old guard among its 110 members. The conservatives, in turn, hope to have rallied enough support by then to turn Dubcek out of office and replace him with Alois Indra, 47, a onetime railway worker who sees things Moscow...
...much of the evening, Jason (Pe ter MacLean) also seems to be Lucifer, ranging between brazen malice and wily seductiveness. He has summoned into session a kind of miniature parliament of seven representative humans, and he wants to wring from them a unanimous vote for fire. Sometimes he uses verbal third-degree tactics, evocative of the rapid-fire non sequiturs gunned at each other by the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...