Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unanswered Mail. In his September showdown over the Republican leader's chair with Howard Baker of Tennessee, Dirksen's son-in-law, most of Scott's strength came from a coalition of moderates and liberals; but, he says, his reputation as an aggressive activist "got me the two crucial votes I needed." Dirksen had antagonized some Republicans by his celebrated coziness with Lyndon Johnson and by the highly personalized manner of his leadership. Scott deliberately follows the reverse course. He is committed to making no under-the-table deals with the opposition, and -partly out of personal...
Franco had two contending groups from which to choose. One was the Falange, the blue-shirted quasi-fascist organization that helped catapult him to power during the Civil War and has been a major source of his political strength ever since. The second is a shadowy group of technocrats who belong to or sympathize with a Roman Catholic organization of laymen and priests known as the Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. It was Opus Dei last week that gained the Franco patrimony. At least ten of the 19 members of the new Cabinet are associated with...
Perhaps it is because the U.S. has entered a new era of romanticism that exalts esthetic feeling and the passive enjoyment of sensuous spectacle. Perhaps it is because the dance has developed artistic strength and social consciousness. Whatever the cause, the cheerful effect is clear. American audiences in recent years have been enjoying a steady boom in good ballet...
...boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a prosciutto performance-but that is exactly what the part requires. Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature. If Quinn is Italo, Magnani is Italy. The ancient sorrow and strength of the nation are inscribed on a face that was not born but achieved...
...polities to make distinctions about appropriate university activities. The tone of NAC statements suggests that they are willing to move as far along the continuum as their power allows in stopping "objectionable" university practices. "Building a movement" implies creating a political force which will at some point have enough strength to coerce other segments of the university into ending certain activities...