Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absitrdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
Confrontation in Vienna. Aside from demonstrating just how far disaffection in the Senate has spread, the session did serve another purpose. It laid out, occasionally with eloquence, the basic positions of the Administration and its less extreme critics. Rusk recalled the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation in Vienna: "In effect, Chairman Khrushchev said to this young President of ours, 'Take your troops out of Berlin or there will be war.' It was necessary for this young President to say, Then Mr. Chairman, there will be war.' " Had the Russian leader believed that Kennedy lacked support at home, Rusk said...
...revolutionary. He coos over the fine fur of his rust-colored cat, Freddie, and holds a lifetime membership in the San Diego Zoo, where he affectionately favors owls, elephants and hippopotamuses. Yet whether in Berkeley or Berlin, today's youthful radicals, who are challenging the most basic premises of industrial society, increasingly turn to the writings of the aging (he will be 70 in July) German-born philosopher to find a satisfactory rationale for rebellion...
...never really gone, neither in Britain nor in the U.S. It may have been overshadowed in the past few years by a wave of such experimental groups as the Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Cream, not to mention the Beatles. But, as Chicago Disk Jockey Jim Stagg says, "basic rock, straight rock, has always been around and part...
...basic problem is that the Alumni constitution prohibits the club from using Building Fund money for operating expenses, an alumnus said...