Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Logic's Lesson. The Western summiteers were determined to make no real concession at all on Berlin. For Berlin has become both a symbol and a vital test of the West's determination to resist Communist encroachment against the free world. The legal foundation on which Western possession of the city rests is complex and to tamper with it is risky. As De Gaulle observed during his visit to Canada last month: "If we do not want an easing of tensions, then we can try for a solution in Berlin. But if we want an easing, we must...
...20th century: under the pressures of mass-think, man loses his individuality and is driven to joining the bestial herd. Many characters protest the change, but relentlessly their skins thicken and wrinkle, their voices become grunts, and great ski-jump tusks appear on their faces. "We must resist rhinocerization at any cost," cry the seemingly unafflicted, but already they start, rhino-like, to munch odd bits of paper, ivy leaves, potted plants...
...infinite finesse"*-a mild little boozer who does not agree with the new rhinos that "once civilization is swept away, we shall all feel better." When even the woman in his life becomes a snorting rhinoceros, his own defeat seems close at hand. But he finds the courage to resist rhinocerization...
...chops some episodes off with effective suddenness, and lets others run on like daydreams. And almost everything he does seems brilliantly right. Hiroshima and France, past and present, music and image and language weave together in a seamless mood that is hard to analyze and even harder to resist...
...opposed to many Democratic proposals pending in Congress, notably the billion-dollar housing bill (see below) and the bill to boost the pay of federal employees by 20%. He worked away at a tough-toned special message, to be sent to Capitol Hill this week, calling upon Congress to resist election-year spending temptations, reject budget-straining welfare bills, and enact his own less costly proposals instead...