Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outline again his church-state philosophy). But his awareness of Ike's impact was implicit in a series of Kennedy shotgun blasts from rostrums everywhere. To counteract the spread of the President's warnings that a Democratic victory would bring a new wave of inflation, Kennedy issued a formal statement in Philadelphia promising "reasonable price stability" and pledging not to devalue the dollar: "Rather, I shall defend its present value and soundness...
...them without "fear of a retaliatory strike that would be too devastatingly costly." But the new-type bomb would move into this stalemate with great effectiveness, and would be used without provoking all-out nuclear attack in retaliation. Predictably, Murray's warning set off a shock wave in the group of U.S. nuclear scientists passionately opposed to any resumption of nuclear tests. Cornell University Physicist Hans Bethe, one of the chief developers of the H-bomb, called Murray's statement an attempt "to divert public opinion from the real issue: to get a treaty that could lead...
...Lerner's presence, and announces to anyone within earshot: "I've got Alan pregnant." Lerner delivers the balance of the lyrics, working with obsessive intensity ; when he is really going strong, he feels ice-cold, has been known to light a fire in the middle of a heat wave while writing. Over the years he has set up a number of semi-fast rules for himself: avoid s sounds, avoid eer sounds above A above middle C, etc. As a lyricist, Lerner lacks the ultrasophistication of a Cole Porter, on the other hand would never commit the more cloying sentimentalities...
More sentimentally, he can wave banners as well as the men of Harlech...
...Manhattan's Lower East side the picture was photographed, directed and partly written by Morris Engel, a shoestring independent whose 1953 movie, The Little Fugitive, scored a solid commercial success in the U.S., and in France made a cultural splash that helped to kick up the New Wave of creativity in French fiIms (TIME...