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...death blow to the growing student peace movement, and paled into insignificance the Harvard football team's unexpected Big Three crown that year. All the College--and 1965 along with it--suspended their studies for an agonized week while their country and the Soviet Union advanced to the brink. Nearly 1000 undergraduates filled Lowell Lecture Hall in a hastily called protest meeting the day after President Kennedy announced the quarantine of the Caribbean nation...
...kind of symbolic public-works program, draining swamps and reclaiming land from the sea, thus creating new territory where millions might live "not in security, but active and free." To Goethe, the serene humanist poet, it seemed like the perfect task for a character snatched back from the brink of damnation...
...months later, and certainly as a consequence of U.S. indecision at the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy Administration again faced the problem of the Sovietization of Cuba, this time in infinitely more dangerous circumstances. Having learned a lesson about opinion, Kennedy did not hesitate to go to the brink to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba; but he gave Khrushchev a face-saving exit through the U.N. decompression chamber. The onlooking world, though nervous, on the whole approved the U.S. action. Kennedy passed up the opportunity of invading Cuba and destroying the Castro regime-not primarily because of world...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently dewived men. Neil Simon's lines and Mike Nichols' direction keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Walter Matthau are wonderfully droll as two recently de-wived men. Neil Simon's lines and the wild comic touch of Director Mike Nichols keep the play on the brink of gleeful absurdity...