Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...India and Pakistan, Connally made a point of praising the "high statesmanship" of Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in their efforts to ease current strains, but there was no sign of a thaw in U.S.-India relations. From Pakistan, the magical mystery tourist flew on to a meeting with Pope Paul VI in Rome, then back...
...Kissinger's dramatic visit to Peking, but surprise diplomacy still seems to be in vogue. The unexpected news that North and South Korea were at the brink of amity after 27 years of vituperation was nearly as stunning in its own way as last summer's sudden thaw in U.S.-Chinese relations...
...real meaning of the outcome is bound to be murky. Savoring this new-found power, NBC News Vice President Richard Wald has half humorously suggested that the primaries be held at the convenience of the press: Southern primaries should take place in the winter. Only when the spring thaw begins should reporters have to make the blustery trek north to New Hampshire and Wisconsin...
...expect from him what he expects from himself--or at least, what the bosses of the Union of Soviet Writers back across the Berlin Wall (which in another poem, pierces through him) apparently expect of their chief literary export item, who came into world prominence during the post-Stalin thaw. Yevtushenko recited his poems by memory, but this poem, being but a few hours off his poem pad, he read. There was about it the quality of improvisation, complete with jazzy tone changes: bombs to balalaikas. Here was Yevtusheno the opportunist at work. At least...
...year late. Scheduled for 1971, the show was abruptly canceled by Moscow after an outburst of anti-Soviet demonstrations, chiefly by the over-activists of the Jewish Defense League. But the thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations caused by President Nixon's announcement of a May summit conference in Moscow changed Soviet minds, and the show was on again. It was accompanied by the U.S.S.R. Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, who declared that "in our opinion we haven't come near to exhausting our potentials for cultural exchange...