Word: waked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign chancelleries, and his awareness of this gnaws at him. What frustrates him even more is the steady strain of criticism from the press, whose columnists and White House reporters he has courted and cajoled but never really won. Last week the buzz rose by several decibels in the wake of an extravagantly adulatory speech by one of his own aides (see following story) that became the target of jeering Washington comment, including a slashing Herblock cartoon...
...birthday party, it could have passed as a wake. Russia's Nikolai Fedorenko slouched in his chair, appearing, if possible, more morose than usual. Britain's Lord Caradon glumly stroked his chin. In the Secretary-General's chair, U Thant looked about as happy as an undertaker. Outside San Francisco's Opera House, where 1,000,000 persons had massed in the streets to cheer the birth of the United Nations 20 years ago, fewer than 2,000 were now gathered; inside were row upon row of empty seats. Adding to the gloominess...
...continue his own candidacy. He never had any chance of beating De Gaulle. But his federation would at least have helped move France toward a two-party system, which many think is essential if the old chaos is not to follow the demise of Gaullism in France. In the wake of Defferre's failure, it was symptomatic that Paris was talking about the possible candidature of onetime Premier Antoine Pinay. Pinay would appeal to the pro-Atlantic, anti-Gaullist conservative vote. But he is also the very symbol of prewar, smalltown, middle-class Catholic France...
Others followed in his wake. One, an Italian daredevil named Signor Ballini, splashed into the rapids and the headlines from a tightrope 160 ft. above the water. And there were barrels. Though countless daredevils pitted their fate against rapids and whirlpool, it was only in 1901 that anyone dared barrel over the waterfall itself. Anna Edson Taylor, a middle-aged widow from Michigan, survived the venture, but three of six others who later tried the stunt died in the attempt...
...creating his modern tragedy, Director Lumet has contrived to effect his catharsis. Why should Nazemann, who has been living in New York for twenty years, exposed to the same influences, suddenly wake up? Why should he be able to recall traumas from repression when anyone else would need an analyst? The death of a Puerto Rican boy who intercepts a bullet meant for Nazemann seems far too circumstantial. Also questionable is Lumet's use of stomach-turners, such as the sequence where Nazemann jabs a long pin through his hand...