Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are certain pitfalls in this predicting business. As you know, I come from Providence and grew up in the shadow of Brown Stadium, so I know that Brown never wins. For kicks I picked them over Dartmouth two weeks ago. Last Saturday I got serious, saw they were playing Colgate--which had just beaten Princeton, which had beaten Dartmouth, which had bombed the Bruins...
PEACE is starting to break out in Saigon. Outside the South Vietnamese capital, the ceaseless patrolling and ambushing continued last week, although there was only limited contact. In Paris and Washington, wary allied and North Vietnamese diplomats maintained their watch on the peace talks. But Saigon, a subdued shadow of its old hedonistic self since the Tet offensive of February, was beginning to glitter once more...
...made, and now they don't know where to put it, someone explains. The statue later comes to rest outside the window of the senile Lord Raglan (John Gielgud), who complains that "it is very much in my light; I wish they'd take it away." But the shadow of Wellington and his age fell upon all of English society, and above all, upon England's pride and joy, the army--which Raglan will soon lead to war in atavistic pursuit of the glory of Waterloo...
...Cambridge Peace and Freedom Club's candidate for state representative. Michael Schwartz, a graduate student in Social Relations, said that the only just solution for Vietnam is to end negotiations and withdraw immediately and totally. Since McCarthy's aim "from the outset" was to lead a campaign is "only shadow boxing." "Nice guy McCarthy has a minor tactical difference with Johnson," he continued to a rising chorus of boos. "McCarthy's movement is over now. McCarthy exists as a feeble support for Humphrey, afraid, as he says, to go all the way in support because the kids will think...
...machinations of the diplomatic life. The search, ultimately, is not only for Leo Harting but for clues to the personal identity that Harting managed to retain while in the service of depersonalizing ideological powers. As it turns out, both Harting and Turner have been Counterpunching with a diplomatic shadow world; they are both, says Turner, "looking for something that isn't there." Le Carrè, playing off the man of ideals against men of duplicity, touches once again on the theme that has elevated him above the average suspense novelist. The philosophical conclusion he arrives at is basically...