Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Price Police. In the wake of his 121% devaluation of the franc, Pompidou launched an austerity program that featured a freeze on most prices. Despite the efforts of the Finance Ministry's "price police" - an army of footsore men in serge suits who carry large account books and check prices in thousands of shops - France's legion of small shop keepers almost immediately began pushing prices up. In Paris, roughly 1 in every 10 shopkeepers broke the line and marked up prices an average of 5%. Last week the workers, reacting to the austerity program, were staying home...
...wake of student unrest, a key issue on U.S. campuses this fall is how the universities can achieve more effective democratic "governance." Last week two of the nation's leading universities announced plans for reform...
Nibbling on Ice. At Cape Providence, the Manhattan slowed to wait for its U.S. Coast Guard escort, the Northwind, which was hobbling on five of its six engines. Within seconds, the tanker was surrounded by ice hummocks blown into its wake by high winds. Captain Steward reversed the engines, then charged the Arctic ice, which, because of its age, had lost its salt content and become rock-hard. When the 10-to 15-ft.-thick ice would not give after twelve hours, the stubby Canadian icebreaker John A. Macdonald was called to the rescue...
...wake of last week's raid, Washington fired off stiff notes to Cairo and Jerusalem, urging more restraint along the canal. But some U.S. officials were plainly more annoyed with Israel for having launched the attack than with Egypt for having goaded its enemies. A State Department official grumbled, "When is Israel going to learn that it can not shoot its way to peace?" Other officials were irritated by the Israelis' conviction that the only way to persuade the Arabs to end their border violations was to hit them hard and often. The U.S. maintains that escalation by one side...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point-he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases- "It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand: "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists-at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous...