Word: tes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole has gone awry: we gaze into a cuckooland of cultural pretension. Small wonder that Traversi failed to get the big commissions; but his work stays in the mind long after the more decorative things in this show, the chalky allegories of the arts, the fêtes champêtres and royal hunting scenes, have blurred together in their amicable second rateness...
Then, as Giscard walked out the front gate to his private car, Mitterrand proceeded to the tapestry-lined Salle des Fêtes to greet several hundred invited guests, including local officials from the Charente region where he was born 64 years ago, Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac in his capacity as mayor of Paris, and several Communist members of Parliament. Most conspicuous were the scores of Socialists who had assembled to witness their leader's triumph, such as Lionel Jospin, Mitterrand's successor as party chief, and Pierre Mendès-France, 74, former Socialist Premier...
...prolonged tâête-á-têtes at the White House and State Department, Hussein repeated his chief objections to Camp David. Palestinian self-determination and Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories must be accepted goals from the start, he insisted. In the end, the sides agreed to disagree, and everybody went to great effort to be conciliatory. Said Jimmy Carter afterward: "We have not tried to change each other's mind...
...fact, hypocrisy and its concomitant, special pleading, have always been Hook's true bêtes noires: "The impassioned groups that shout in our courtrooms today 'All power to the people' are unaware that they are calling for mob rule of which many of their forebears were victims." Of reverse discrimination, Hook demands: "Would it be reasonable to contend that women should have been compensated for past discrimination against their maternal forebears by being given an extra vote or two ... ?" Nor is he indulgent to political philosophers-"those of us who are concerned with current issues...