Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...prospect of a slice of the former $545 million-a-year U.S.-Cuba trade looked irresistible. A tide of nationalism and of disenchantment with U.S. leadership is running in Canada. Hardly a day goes by without calls for Canada to assert its own leadership and go its own self-interested way. Last week Prime Minister Diefenbaker rose in the House of Commons to explain Ottawa's official position. Said he: "We respect the views of other nations in their relations with Cuba just as we expect that they respect our views in our relations...
...suggesting that the manner of their footing in the fling, a point of pride in kilted regiments, is a disgrace to Scotland-Jock sees his chance and takes it. At the next regimental rout he defiantly leads a drunken reel. The colonel throws a tantrum, disgracing him self before his officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than the colonel's: he "bashes" a corporal (John Eraser) for walking out with his daughter (Susannah York). A court-martial...
...selling touch was matched by his talent for promotion and advertising. He instituted the annual Neiman-Marcus fashion design awards, which draw top designers from New York and Paris to the heart of Texas to show their originals. In his self-appointed role as the omninventoried merchant prince, Marcus window-shops Europe with his camera in search of ideas, on one trip spotted a French silk housecoat that he copied this year in chinchilla. Price: $7,950. "We haven't sold any yet," he admits, "but we've had a couple of inquiries. I like...
...LAST OF THE JUST, by André Schwarz-Bart. Through one family, a bitter, largely self-taught first novelist follows the unrelenting horror of anti-Semitism from medieval England to Hitler's Germany. The author's grim tale belies his dictum: "To be a Jew is impossible...
...author's autobiographical novel of boyhood (The Stars Grow Pale) that is every bit as good as the first. The walls imposed by sightlessness and the desperate efforts to break through to contact with the life of the seeing are described with candor and beauty, without sentimentality or self-pity...