Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following excerpt from yesterday's report by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities includes the Committee's explanation of the criteria it used in deciding how to punish those charged in the November 19 demonstration...
...Marais was an Afrikaner best remembered by his countrymen as one of their early poets, but he was also a journalist, self-taught naturalist and morphine addict. Such fame as he enjoyed outside Africa came mainly from the scandal caused when famous Belgian Writer Maurice Maeterlinck stole a lengthy excerpt of Marais's Afrikaans text. The Soul of the White Ant, and published it under his own name. Marais shot himself in 1936. Shortly after, his complete study of white ants, i.e., termites, and a slim, chatty book of reminiscences about baboons were published in Europe. Marais had studied...
Other newspapers-including the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Post-ran the text and the New Yorker sold more than 55,000 reprints of its "Talk of the Town" section, in which they had printed a lengthy excerpt...
Buckley quotes an excerpt from Vidal's novel, Myra Breckinridge, describing in detail the "splendor" of the male buttocks, claims that Myra "sees all life as a naming of parts, an equating of groins, a pleasing and/or painful forcing of orifices-the essence of pornography." He also charges that the book "attempts heuristic allegory but fails, giving gratification only to sadist-homosexuals and challenge only to taxonomists of perversion...
...France. Before Nixon even arrived in France, Paris-Presse was on the streets with the originally planned text of his effusive message of greeting to De Gaulle. In huge type, the paper printed this excerpt: "Few leaders of the modern world think so broadly as you, Mr. President. Few have so well understood the great historical sweeps of the past. Few have thought so clearly about the future. Few have so considered the interplay of forces that shape events, the motivations of men and nations." It was an extraordinary paean to the Frenchman who has so stubbornly obstructed every European...