Word: foe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1930s, Muggeridge toured Russia to see what wonders the Bolshevik Revolution had wrought. When he became aware of mass starvation and terrorism, he discarded his comfortable left-wing views for life and became a determined foe of Communism. It was this experience that turned him into such a mordant critic of his fellow...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORYOFGERMANY by André Maurois. 295 pages. Viking $22.50. From the time of Arminius who destroyed three Roman legions in the dense Teutoburger Wald, to Germany's present-day resurgence, the country has been painted, sculpted anc dissected in words by friend and foe alike. Author Maurois, who has also done illustrated histories of France and England, is guardedly optimistic abou the German future, sees little likelihood of a new Nazism but warns that "Bismarckian nationalism always will remain a possibility...
Last Thursday morning, in his hospital room President Johnson asked former President Eisenhower to make a goodwill tour of Asia next spring. If the General makes the tour, he will probably express his support of the Administration's Vietnam policy with the desired effect of convincing friend and foe alike that the American people--Republicans and Democrats--are solidly behind the President. In the President's mind, this move should make it abundantly clear to both Hanoi and our Asian allies that the defeat of many Democrats in the mid-term elections does not bely any widespread popular disaffection with...
...Brattle fans' real hero is Godard himself. Champion of love and poetry, foe of technology and sterility, Godard fights a never-ending battle for all sorts of aesthetic things that the computer which rules Alphaville, Alpha 60, just doesn't appreciate...
...also believed that good government, like a good servant, should intrude as little as possible. He himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering in a coma for four months, Harry Byrd, 79, had seen nearly every political theory he held dear invalidated by the clamorous demands...