Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...castigated him, however, not so much for his eviction notice to NATO (which is fairly popular with the French) as for not consulting either NATO or them before acting. De Gaulle's lieutenants fought back effectively, but it was left to Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to sum up le grand Charles's grand aim: "It is inevitable and beneficial for everyone that Europe should recover her independence from America...
More of the other poems in this issue are no more than the sum of their parts. They strive too hard for effects, and seem to come from the poet's vocabulary instead of his experience. The most shameless specimen of this kind of bombast is Worth Long's "Hope Unborn." For example...
...regatta, held at the Charles River Basin in a 15 to 20 knot wind, was raced as a team event, in which only two teams are on the water at the same time. Each team has three boats, with the winning team determined by the lower sum of the teams' finishing positions. Harvard finished with the low total in each of its five races...
...hardly call a writer Esoteric whose work is taught in two courses in the University. But the poet John McArdin Berryman, who visited Cambridge last month to great for the Advocate, enjoys a certain underground popularity in the East that is greater than the sum of the responsible remarks people make about him--partly because there is still a communications gap between the literary East and the no-less moneyed, no-less-well educated, but far less established West (Berryman lives and teaches in Minneapolis), and partly because his witty, original, finely wrought and somehow insurrectionary poetry offers a marked...
...publish their photos have been hit by innumerable lawsuits but seldom hurt by them-awards often amount to no more than a symbolic one franc. Now, however, one newspaper has been ordered to pay $8,000 in damages to the family of the late actor Gerard Philipe -the largest sum yet awarded for photographic invasion of privacy by a newspaper...