Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard decision to go to the aid of Lebanon came short hours after the nationalist coup in Iraq threatened to set the whole Mideast in flame. In its historic answer to the faraway fire alarm...
Crisp & Quick. Already programed for that morning was a 9:45 meeting of the National Security Council, which was scheduled to deal with civilian defense problems. Ike decided not to change the agenda but to cut the meeting short. At 10:30, during the meeting in the Cabinet room, an aide handed the President a note saying that Dulles had arrived and was waiting in the President's office. The President adjourned the meeting and walked back to his office with Vice President Richard Nixon, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, Deputy Secretary of Defense...
...Sonata is far more accessible on first hearing than either the Quartet or Variations, but many in the audience found it too tough a challenge. This is quite understandable, for Carter's recent music tends to be long on intellect and short on emotion, and there is little melody in the usual sense of the term...
Another writer, in the humanities session with Mrs. Piper, is Martin Walser, German short-story author and novelist. German and American intellectuals are in the same boat, stated Walser, because they are not directly in the employ of their governments and stand apart from their people. "While the intellectual cannot agree with what goes on around him, it's not his business to be angry or propose ready remedies." An intellectual, Walser stated, "should be a diagnostician, not a surgeon...
...turned to left-wing writing and the bottle. He is confronted after eight years by his twice-divorced ex-wife, a 40-year-old beauty "carved in ice"--vain, mendacious, and desperate--who "can't face getting old." Their reconciliation at the end, we know, will be short-lived. All the other hotel residents are lonely too, but they hate to admit...