Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev held out for future summit negotiations was deliberately insulting. "We would think," he said, "that there is no better way out than to postpone the conference of the heads of government for approximately six to eight months." Harshly, he underscored his point: by then, Dwight Eisenhower will no longer be President of the U.S. "The Soviet government," declared Nikita, "is deeply convinced that if not this Government of the U.S., then another, and if not another then the next one, would understand that there is no other way out but the peaceful coexistence of the two systems...
...issues but an apparent change in Khrushchev. The Khrushchev they had expected to meet was committed to "peaceful coexistence" at least in name. With his rejection of Stalinism, he had staked out his place in Communist history as the exponent of the affluent revolution, of a Soviet society no longer built primarily on sacrifice. He promised peace, and with it, a better life. By the logic of his promises, he urgently needed to reduce the burden that cold-war armament imposed on Russian economic and human resources...
...Beerbohm, a good-sized short story might have been told in the space it took Behrman just to arrive at his first meeting with Beerbohm, outside Rapallo. William Shawn, Ross's successor as editor, once told a friend over a drink: "The stories just seem to get longer-I don't know...
...best worry about it the most. Contributor Phyllis McGinley thinks of The New Yorker as the place where she was "first published, weaned, pruned and loved." Says she: "Whereas I once read it cover to cover, now I read it like a tired businessman. It's no longer a funny magazine; yet it isn't a literary magazine either. They still seem to think they're witty and sophisticated, but they're not. They're afraid of originality...
Time was when all a woman needed was to slip on a pair of slacks and her husband's old shirt to play the casual. But with slacks and casual clothes now designed even for evening wear, the idea is to convert "casual" into a fashionable word no longer synonymous with "sloppy" and "convenient...