Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some are glorified by their faults; others are damned by their virtues," wrote La Rochefoucauld. And The Cousins, an Adult Fable which rolled in from France a while back on the crest of the "new wave," sighs that, though very sad, this is a fact of life...
...Hero, No Job. A fortnight ago in Costa Rica, Arcaya was Castro's warmest non-Cuban supporter at the meeting of the Organization of American States that censured Cuba. As a mortified Betancourt listened by short-wave radio, Arcaya fought to water down the resolution rapping Cuba, warmly embraced Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa (who happens to be Arcaya's fifth cousin). A phone call from Caracas summoned Arcaya off the floor. "You will return a hero of the Communists but not a friend of mine," said Betancourt, who thereupon ordered Arcaya to step aside and let another...
...church, and people seek truth at the movies instead of at the Mass," says French Director Marcel Camus, whose sweeping ideas sometimes run a little too fast for the projector. Camus (no kin to the late writer-philosopher) reached the upper crest of the French cinema's New Wave with his Black Orpheus, a rambling but intensely poetic movie he produced by hiring amateur actors and coaxing action out of them against wild festival backgrounds in Rio de Janeiro. The formula worked so well that last fall Camus returned to Brazil, hired two professional actors, more amateurs and some...
Israelis, and perhaps most other Jews, are convinced that the wave of the future for Judaism lies in the state of Israel rather than the Jews outside it. But, says Toynbee, "as an historian, peering into the future in the light of the past, [ spy the wave of the future in the Jewish Diaspora...
...reason for the new wave is the tax laws. The man with a family-owned company today often goes out actively to seek merger with a bigger company. He thus not only gives himself a chance for capital gains in his lifetime but averts a possible sacrifice sale in case of his death. Profit-making companies also look on the tax losses on the books of a money loser as a big inducement to merge, since the loss can be used at the Internal Revenue Service desk to offset the taxes on their own profits...