Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House luncheon was finished, and it was time for toasts. Said the President of the U.S. with a twinkle in his eye: "Someone suggested, Mr. Prime Minister, that I begin this toast by saying: 'My good disassociates' "-a reference to Harold Wilson's "dissociating" the British government from the U.S. bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong oil-storage areas. In reply, Wilson complimented the President on his sense of humor, then turned soberly to his most pressing problem: Britain's economic crisis. Said Wilson, grimly declaring his resolve to beat it: "If we have to fight...
...time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France. In any case, he gave De Gaulle a reception that was far beyond what protocol requires for an ordinary working visit. Honor guards and anthems were in profusion, and Erhard's luncheon toast was especially cordial...
...more than half a year, Charles de Gaulle has said little in a direct way about the war in Viet Nam. Last week, fresh from his grand tour of Russia, he spoke up. In a host's toast to the King and Queen of Laos on the eve of Bastille Day celebrations, De Gaulle declared that "France condemns this...
...garden party in Peking came Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi. Peking had already accused the Russians of collusion with Washington for a settlement in Europe that would free U.S. troops now based on the Continent to fight in Asia. For the French, Chen Yi had a toast of his own. Said he: "I am deeply convinced that so long as all the peace-loving countries and peoples of the world unite and wage a common struggle, the U.S. imperialist plan for aggression and war can be foiled and the world peace can be safeguarded. The Chinese people are ready...
Thus, at the center of the contemporary stage remains the European drama represented by Beckett, lonesco, Genet, Pinter and Osborne. None are alike; yet all raise a hemlock toast to the 20th century. Theirs is a drama of metaphysical anguish, rigorous negation, asocial stance, skin-prickling guilt and anxiety, and abidingly absurd humor. In their plays, the situation of man is horrible and funny at the same time. Ionesco says that man laughs so as not to cry. The problem these playwrights pose is man's oldest and newest-the existence problem...