Word: souring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's hockey team combined a miss-the-open-net offense with a non-existent defense to end its 16-8-1 season on a sour note Saturday night, falling to U.N.H...
Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...
Despite this sweet-and-sour ap proach, there were signs that both powers were trying to be agreeable. Nixon announced that he had ordered relaxation of trade restrictions that would put China on the same basis with the U.S. as the Soviet Union. The Chinese delegation to the United Nations held an unusual party for New York City police to express appreciation for protection provided by the cops since the delegation's arrival in November. At home, China's leaders lifted a ban against the sale of some classic books by Western thinkers, creating crowds in Peking bookstores...
Something has been lost in the translations. Isherwood's stories were taut, bittersweet recollections of bohemian Berlin in the early '30s. By the time Scenarist Allen and Director Fosse have wrung them out, what's left -with one exception-is mostly slack and sour. The exception is their vibrant star Liza Minnelli, who cocks a derby over a green-shadowed eye and struts off with the movie, or as much of it as is worth carrying...
...their government lies and distorts to its public, scholars entering government will continue to make real compromises on principle if their work has not already departed from the norms of academic interchange. And as in the case of Huntington's discussion of urbanization, their published writings will inevitably sour the level of public discourse, and contribute to the destruction of linguistic and intellectual standards. The issue of the academic in government is a complex and subtle one; but there is a point where the two principles conflict, and no individual can be faithful to both if he performs...