Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people to defend freedom, justice, etc. But the "face" of anticommunism does not come alive until Kennedy himself stands before a crowd of cheering West Berliners and challenges those people "who do not see the issue between communism and freedom," those who think that "communism is the wave of the future," those who would surrender: "Let them come to Berlin...
...hurt and dismay over the new hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation...
...National Council of Churches was formed in 1950 to coordinate such matters as foreign mission support and development of Christian education programs. In the last two years council leaders have increasingly taken strong stands on moral issues in politics and economics. The result has been a wave of criticism, and last week, at a General Board meeting in Portland, Ore., council leaders discussed how they ought to respond...
...Wave, New World. As an actress, Moreau enjoyed her first moment of triumph, but she was miserable over the loss of Malle. She moved from her old apartment in the Latin Quarter to a house in Versailles, and took stock. She was 30 years old, and what did she have? Offers of films. A pen for signing autographs. An occasional friend. It was a bleak time and she considered giving up films altogether. But her life was fully committed to the rhythm and whirl of moviemaking. And if she wasn't an actress, after all, she was very little...
...time, Truffaut was the sternest critic on Cahíers du Cinéma, the trumpet and bible of the New Wave, and he introduced Moreau to the company of serious filmmakers and intellectuals that has been her real world ever since. "I found myself among people I understood better," she recalls, "people I wanted to know, people I admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses...