Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist party congresses are usu ally thoroughly predictable, ritualistic affairs, and for a time last week the Twelfth Congress of the Italian party in Bologna observed the punctilios. The valiant North Vietnamese delegation was vigorously applauded, exiles from Greece were sympathetically received, and representatives from 34 other na tions were recognized. But then, for the 1,041 delegates and 4,000 observers in Bologna's overheated sports arena, the ritual ended. Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 68, signaled the change with some curious additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul...
...last, but far from least, to the CEP for its valiant efforts at "due process." Even though it appeared difficult for some faculty members to differentiate between the SFAC Resolution and the CEP Resolution after Professor Wilson had his say, somewhere, in the back of my mind (or perhaps in my viscera) I do feel there was a difference...
Before the men could leave, of course, there had to be speeches. Reagan's was mercifully brief, telling the men that the "last thing you need is a speech from me." But Reagan ended up with the rhetoric of a simpler kind of homecoming--welcoming "you valiant men"--and Sen. Smith drove it into the ground in her speech. After she was done, the proud little mayor of San Diego took ten minutes to tell the men how just really delighted his city was to host this happy reunion...
...Furniture is no problem: since her parents' new residence in Washington comes furnished, Julie has scavenged their Manhattan apartment for everything from her father's fruitwood chest to end tables and Oriental rugs. David will commute the seven miles to Amherst in a well-worn white 1962 Valiant, which he bought from his grandmother last year. After earning his degree in political science, he plans to study law, perhaps at Georgetown University in Washington. As for Julie, after graduation in 1970, she aspires to work on documentary films. She should have plenty of opportunity to practice her trade...
...Boris Pasternak. Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn was almost kicked out, he added, "although it is Solzhenitsyn who confers honor on the Union of Writers by being its member, while the union adds nothing to Solzhenitsyn." Then, returning to the hard life of his friend, he paid final tribute to a valiant spirit and, in the process, movingly described the source of intellectual discontent in today's Russia. "A person, in Kosterin's idea, is a thinking being. Therefore, nature has given to him a striving for knowledge, that is, for critically evaluating reality, drawing one's own conclusions...