Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cooperation from China. Also, Washington worries that a lack of contact between China and the U.S. might embolden the Russians to blackmail or attack China. In view of Moscow's superior military strength, an American show of neutrality would only benefit the Russians; yet because of the communications void between Peking and Washington, the U.S. would have no other choice, short of retaliating directly against the Soviets. Washington would like to make the Russians less certain of impunity in the event they decided to start a war against China...
...maturity: our wish is to stay immature as little children." It was meant metaphorically; yet it expressed a profound disillusion with the values of the "older generation"-or perhaps the lack of them. Given little to believe in or rebel against by their liberal parents, the young filled the void with their own lifestyles. The decade's compulsive clichés-"relevant" and "meaningful"-suggested a desperate search for identity...
...might be helpful, Party Leader Gustav Husák responded swiftly, albeit cautiously. "We are waiting for an initiative," said Husák, who proposed as a starter the repudiation "from the beginning" of the 1938 Munich Pact that ceded the Sudetenland to Germany. Bonn already considers the pact void. In any case, the territory was returned to Czechoslovakia after World...
...minute left. We were only 14 points behind, and Frank left! He didn't go to the dressing room, and he didn't seek out a telephone booth or storage room, he just left. But if this is Frank Champi's attitude, maybe a new star will fill the void this year, like Joe Roda or Dave Smith. Or Ralph Cahaly. Lots of Mickey Mouse from the band today, but the Crimson will be the winner...
...Noon. however, is not the bill's climax-it is Leonard Melfi's concluding Night that is the outstanding offering. Void of the earlier comedy. Night is set in a graveyard where the four corners of America have gathered to mourn the death of the enigmatic Cock Certain. Like the impoverished Italians of Pasolini's Teorama these Americans seem to be struggling, each to possess alone the memory of Cock Certain, perhaps their Christ, perhaps their Satan, surely their source of life. Their struggle though is ultimately a dance of death, as yet another enigmatic figure, a man dressed...