Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers satisfied Nader, the consumer crusader who has challenged such industrial giants as the auto industry and the meat packers, the applicant was accepted. He was then authorized to go forth and do unpaid battle with the powerful, the lethargic and the secretive amid Washington's vast bureaucracy. Seven young volunteers, law students and lawyers from Ivy League colleges, spent their summer examining how well the Federal Trade Commission does its job of protecting the customer. Their 185-page report, released last week, mixes verbal assassination with hard-to-fault criticism of the inadequately staffed and over-comatose agency...
...substantial amount may well come from France, where Israel enjoys vast popular support despite De Gaulle. The French President decreed the ban without consulting either Prime Minister Couve de Murville or Foreign Minister Michel Debré. Predictably, it raised a roar of political and editorial protest, especially so since De Gaulle has sold a dozen Mirage 3s to Lebanon and is dickering to sell 54 more to Iraq. Every major non-Communist paper in France denounced the ban on arms to Israel. In reply, De Gaulle harshly raised, through Information Minister Joël Le Theule, an old European phobia...
...other politician in recent British history-had made such a major issue of the delicate question of race. The results horrified moderates. Rank-and-file workingmen, normally Labor Party stalwarts, downed tools to demonstrate their support for Tory Powell. Nearly 100,000 letters poured into his office, the vast majority in hearty agreement with his speech. Political leaders of both parties quickly declared Powell to be irresponsible and the press denounced him. Unfazed, Powell asserted: "I've been heard, heard as no man in this country has been heard in 30 years...
Monstrous Metamorphosis. In Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard saw the end of the world as a vast traffic jam. Bergman's concept is less visual-and more chilling. His people never see history; like radiation, it destroys them without touching them. Jan and Eva become aliens in their own marriage. They rage against their cage and at each other. As Samuel Beckett puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps...
...President) is a form favored by authors whose main interest is cash. But more and more serious writers are adding rooms and views to already created structures. In Numquam, Lawrence Durrell continues his story (begun in Tune) of the "thinking weed" Felix Charlock and his struggles with the vast Merlin corporation. Isaac Bashevis Singer transplants the children from The Manor in Poland to The Estate in America. Elsewhere in Europe, Sarah Gainham conducts what is left of her cast of Viennese characters from Night Falls on the City into the postwar era. C. P. Snow has achieved a double sequel...