Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...also faces some opposition, but he has managed to open negotiations with the Israelis without forfeiting his prestige with the Palestinian commando organizations. At his seaside retreat in Alexandria, Nasser last week received Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, whose visit was interpreted as a gesture of continued support. The general speculation in Cairo is that Arafat and other moderate fedayeen leaders will avoid an open break with Nasser until the Egyptian President can determine whether progress can be made in the New York talks...
...Egypt and Jordan a set of questions that will seek to probe Arab intentions: Are the Arabs ready to live at peace with Israel, and by what kind of arrangement are they prepared to secure that peace? If the Israelis receive what they regard as satisfactory answers to their general inquiry-and if the fragile cease-fire does not fall apart in the meantime-the stage will be set for serious negotiations...
...play things like Ring-a-leevio, Three Feet to Germany, Johnny on the Pony," says Gould. But he excelled at flipping trading cards bought by the fistful down at Irving's Candy Store. "There were Smilin' Jack cards, baseball cards, World War II cards with General MacArthur and the bombing of Tokyo on them," he recalls fondly. But mastery of card flipping and having his own charge account at Irving's were not enough. Gould was terribly conscious of "a degree of vulnerability, of not wanting to make a fool of myself. I didn't feel abnormal, but I certainly...
Preference for Officers. The least attractive Government jobs are in the Social Security Administration, the Veterans Administration and the General Services Administration, which mostly offer jobs in the lower classifications. At the Department of Defense, which employs 43% of all federal workers, civil servants complain that the Air Force hires so many retired officers for top civilian jobs that it cuts off career employees' hopes for advancement...
Professional Jealousy. Somewhere along the way, Frost's fury at rejections fanned out into a general, capricious malice and crass opportunism. Much of the book is devoted to an appalling accumulation of trivial plotting and backbiting. It was a shrewd Yankee who first told Frost that good fences make good neighbors, because contracts in particular meant little to him. A publisher once got the poet's approval before signing up an early biographer. Frost gave it, but finding another writer even more idolatrous, he awarded him the exclusive rights-leaving the publisher with two authors for one book...