Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often a free auditorium for club meetings or amateur plays, the centers entice auto-borne families with a busy schedule of attractions. There are fashion shows and symphony concerts, pumpkin-judging contests and senior proms, reptile-club snake exhibits and "petting zoos" (for animals tame enough for tots to touch). Porpoises sometimes frolic in the 80-ft. pool at the King of Prussia Plaza near Valley Forge, Pa., and esprit runs so high that clerks don antique costumes and vie for prizes at the annual summer "sidewalk" sale...
Basic Change. The two settlements actually put little new pressure on copper's Big Four-Anaconda, Kennecott, Phelps Dodge and American Smelting & Refining-to come to terms with 60,000 strikers. Both agreements involve local operations and thus do not touch the strike's key issue: the 26 unions' demand for a basic change in the bargaining rules. The unions, backed by the full power of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., demand the right to bargain as a coalition within each company, and to set common expiration dates on all contracts. "This is a strike," said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President...
...Manhattan. As a story, it is nothing much. Growing up, Kerouac accepts his household gods (Breton ancestry and Roman Catholic religion), goes to school, plays football, goes to sea, and comes home shorn of vanity and, one is given to hope, restored to sanity and innocence. The one touch of melodrama is provided by Kerouac's pal Claude who murders an obstreperous pansy...
...course Sidney's happiness cannot last and Beauty's end is all too foreseeable. The real point is that he goes to his death with pride in his blackness and with no regard for what in him is owed to inherited whiteness. That touch is convincing enough, but not the narrative style ("When first Sidney saw Beauty Beast come walking with buoyant zeal, flesh of her nature lay scorched again"). There is something wildly outdated about such plantation-patented prose...
...involved. He had just received outraged letters from . . . Crick and Wilkins . . .," are at best misleading. The letters from Crick and Wilkins, which caused President Pusey's concern, arrived in the late fall of 1966. I, as director of the Press, was immediately informed; I was kept in constant touch with the correspondence; and there was nothing unexpected about the President's decision to intervene. He considered the matter one of overall University policy; I think he was right in so viewing it, though I completely and emphatically disagree with the decision he and his colleagues reached which forced the Press...