Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wake of Richard Nixon's election, speculation inevitably focused on the impact that his narrow victory would have on his ability to govern. Lacking a popular majority, or even a respectable edge over Hubert Humphrey, would he be hamstrung by an opposition Congress and hounded by his always numerous critics? The answer is likely to be: not for a while. After a year of crises and threats of more to come, the nation and the world seem eager for a respite. Moreover, the U.S. has long had a tradition of forbearance toward a new President: a willingness...
...Greek port of Salonica one grey dawn last week, a 900-ton escort ship waited for her just outside the harbor. The Forrestal turned southward into the Aegean Sea, and the escort dutifully took up station a mile astern, rolling gently in the huge carrier's wake. At midday, when the Forrestal catapulted her Phantom jets into clearing skies, the escort drew alongside to within 50 yards of the carrier. But not a signal was exchanged. The escort vessel was Russian, a super gunboat of the Mirka class, and the Forrestal had not invited her to tag along...
...TROUT, by Elizabeth Bowen. This is a rare commodity on today's fiction market: a novel of sensibility. The story is about a wandering, capricious heiress who leaves many lives bobbing helplessly in her wake...
Quite apart from his self-proclaimed roughness, Brecht is a particular idol of Brook's because of his contention that an audience should wake up and think, and that drama should be an instrument of social change. Brook accepts too uncritically the notion that Brecht wanted an audience to think for itself: no playwright was a more sedulous brainwasher. Despite his fierce ideological bias, however, there is no convincing proof that Brecht-or any other playwright-ever altered the course of a society. Reflecting the nature of a society is another question; all good drama does that...
...tall lanky editor of the Paris Review has also offered up his body for three boxing rounds against Archie Moore, suffered humiliation across the tennis net from Pancho Gonzales, floundered in the watery wake of Swimmer Don Schollander, lost at bridge to Oswald Jacoby, and banged percussion instruments with the New York Philharmonic. He is, in effect, the actor of the average man's Walter Mitty dreams-the real-life agent of vicarious thrills. And now, in The Bogey Man, Plimpton records the humorous agonies of his experience as a mock-professional golfer...