Word: precision
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ONLY a brief precis of Taylor's account of the period's tragic diplomacy is possible here. From the Versailles settlement of the First World War right to the failure of Western negotiations with the Soviet Union in early 1939, the West sought to make sense out of the conflicting...
An uproarious, perceptive play about a man of 35 who finds genuinely childish behavior the logical response to a hypocritical, senile world, Crawling Arnold invalidates the praise Feiffer once received--"your people speak just like real people; put them on the stage and they'll sound just like real people...
This spirit is supplemented by the tribute to Rene Leynaud, written just after his death in 1944. Many have found Camus' undefined and imprecise use of the words "honor" and "decency" confusing: here is their explanation. A precis would be unfair, but Leynaud, who "never bargained about anything", will be...
Wouldn't it be useful, suggested Reston, to prepare the President-elect for the or deal of office, with 1 ) summaries of the studies of the presidential work load drafted by Eisenhower commissions, and 2) a precis of the unfinished business left by the departing President? And, he added...