Word: point
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Whatever the motivations behind it, the Lavon affair now appears to have occurred, by curious or uncurious coincidence, at the turning point in Middle Eastern history of the past decade...
...average daily agricultural wage: 60?). He outlawed unruly opposition parties, saw to it that persuasive opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even for El Salvador. When parading students protested a ban on public meetings, his police responded with clubs, fire hoses and point-blank rifle fire; boys were beaten and several girls were raped. Horrified by such excess and fearful of total, bloody revolt, the nation's respectable moderates organized a preventive coup...
...fallibility of the human memory, the infirmities of the human mind, the weakness of human understanding and recollection." And intelligent, articulate diarists are the very worst kind: they couple their love of the language with their imagination and usually produce "a fusion of fact and fancy." To illustrate his point, Frankfurter drew a bead on James K. Polk, a President who was neither articulate nor imaginative but rather, in Frankfurter's view, a "bookkeeper" and "a dull man." Said Frankfurter: "He wrote a reliable diary...
...sissified almost out of recognition for theatrical effect. The Mexican army, apparently in deference to the large Mexican movie market, is presented as a body of sensitive young men who look as though they all have college degrees and suffer every time they pull a trigger. And at one point, just in case the teen-agers don't dig all that ancient history. Singer Avalon jumps up and belts out a little rock 'n' roll...
...Funt, in the guise of a barber, would say, "You know, this is the first time I ever shaved a man." Once a customer threw off the sheet, chased Funt with a razor. "You can only aggravate a guy so far," he discovered. "Beyond that, you are skirting the point of no return...