Word: signed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vienna Rendezvous. Yet another sign of the Soviet desire to keep channels of communication with the U.S. relatively clear was a quiet meeting held in Vienna's elegant Hotel Imperial last week between McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation and former national security adviser to Presidents Johnson and Kennedy, and Dzher-man Gvishiani, son-in-law of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and a ranking member of the state committee for science and technology. The ostensible reason for the get-together was to discuss the creation of an East-West Institute, perhaps to be located in the Austrian capital...
...Anti-War Committee statement centered around whether SDS was the official voice of all the Paine Hall demonstrators. Several of those who helped draft the statement were not members of H-R SDS. The members present decided that in the future the writers of all statements would sign their names, together with the organization to which they belonged...
...Volcano was finally accepted for publication. In Dark As the Grave, we meet some of the characters who appeared in different form in Under the Volcano, and we discover the often mundane source of what had seemed brilliant invention in the earlier novel. The Consul's mistranslation of the sign "Evite que sus hijos lo destruyan" as "We evict those who destroy" was, Lowry admits, his own careless error, not a conscious subtle distortion...
Maybe so. But the strange white figures in the real shower stalls or the garage attendant slouched outside a real winking sign that says "Park," by their whiteness and strangeness, take on a kind of eerie archetypal relevance. The girl in Subway is every girl or any girl who has nervously taken a lonely train home late one night. The couple in Motel is all guilty couples who have ever sneaked away for a surreptitious rendezvous...
...Here we are," says the cabby, stopping at No. 429 Broome Street, an unlighted storefront in lower Manhattan with a FOR LET sign taped to one black-painted window. By day, Broome Street is a bustling, truck-clogged thoroughfare; at 9 p.m. it is all but deserted. Doubtfully, the passenger pays the cabby and walks over to try the door of the store. It is locked. He is about to return to the taxi when he notices a small bell push, hidden in the shadows. He presses; a buzzer signals that the door is unlocked. He steps inside a tiny...