Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many African leaders will turn up. Last week his Foreign Minister, Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, was off on a recruiting tour of Africa's west coast. One of his first visits would be to Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who could hardly be pleased by Algeria's sudden embargo on exported subversion. In fact, the Boumedienne regime was drawing fire from leftists all over the revolutionary lot. In Paris the Communist newspaper L'Humanite published a manifesto calling on Algerians to organize themselves into "clandestine cells" to "fight against the stranglers of the republic." To defend himself against...
...runner-up at the Masters, could say was: "Fantastic!" At the Memphis Open in late May, Nicklaus seemed out of contention, five strokes off the pace after 54 holes. Then there came Jack with a sensational 65 on the last 18 to throw the tournament into a sudden-death play-off with Johnny Pott, and pocket the winner's $9,000 after the first play-off hole. In the Thunderbird Classic at Westchester Country Club two weeks ago, Nicklaus was one stroke behind Gary Player with four holes to go. So on the next hole...
...conversation of the century. At 58, Wystan Hugh Auden is the only man left in the English-writing world who can be called a major poet, but unhappily he has fallen on lean years; for more than a decade his verse has lacked verve. In About the House, no sudden reanimation of the muse is evident; yet in these pages the poet attempts to draft a new lease on creative life. Auden in his previous poetry has systematically sublimated private feeling into public statement; in this volume, with wavering will and sometimes with quavering hand, he ventures to describe...
Report to Greco illuminates Kazantzakis' life in the way that lightning illuminates the dark. A sudden flash, and there stands that lusty old goat Zorba, the flesh-and-blood model for Kazantzakis' most successful novel, who taught him "to love life and have no fear of death." Another flash reveals the writer in the throes of creation, dipping his pen into his own blood: "Writing may have been a game in other ages. Today it is a grave duty, to proclaim a state of mobilization, to urge men to do their utmost to surpass the beast...
...Einstein absently losing his way to the lavatory in Los Alamos, Fermi cycling his way to work, the sweat-pearled faces of the scientists as they eased the nuclear core into the bomb case and then took their places to watch the results of their own handi work: a sudden fire hotter and brighter than...