Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others to do. His was most difficult of rebellious that of the rebel who finds in silence of his opponents his reason for struggle, who finds his struggle his only claim to justification. "Let us not look the door," he says at the end this collection, "anywhere but the wall against which we living...
...conceded that the landing "did not achieve all of its proposed objectives," announced that he believed that "the U.S. should not intervene militarily," promised that "landings will continue to take place." Then, tears in his eyes, he walked down a hall to another room and slumped against a wall...
...onetime Wall Street broker, Orvil Dryfoos married Sulzberger's first daughter, Marian, in 1941. two years later went to work for his father-in-law. From then on, his rise was prompt and predictable: vice president and Times director in 1954, Times president in 1957. Ever since Sulzberger suffered a stroke three years ago, Dryfoos has been publisher in nearly everything but title...
...inevitable question: Where will the climb end? Clearly the market so far had risen on buying by investors who anticipate an economic recovery. Poor first-quarter earnings had been expected-and discounted-by investors. The latest signs that a real economic upturn is under way could only lead, most Wall Streeters felt, to a continued upsurge in the market. Some were betting that the market would hit 725 before it leveled...
...Country (by Henry Denker) concerns Sigmund Freud at 36, when, butting against the wall of medical opposition, he was also breaking through the wall of man's unconscious. It specifically concerns his early and famous patient, the young Viennese Elizabeth von Ritter: through opening the shutters of her mind, which had put fetters on her body, Freud released light that, expanding, would flood modern living and penetrate modern thought. Thanks to a sound union of play and production, A Far Country is very often engrossing...