Word: threading
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...helps TIME search out the thread of reality from the snarl of events in the Near East, an area of special interest to me since my wartime years there with the Office of War Information. Monica's beat is Israel alone. The nearby countries, including the Arab states, are covered by our Beirut Bureau, headed by Keith "Israel," Monica writes, "is a small country where 5,000 people buy TIME and a far greater number read it. This means that almost everyone I meet, from taxi driver to government official, knows exactly what has appeared in the magazine...
...army did fight and Diem did not fall. Back in Saigon last week, Joe Collins called an off-the-record press conference that did not stay off the record long. What South Viet Nam needs, said Collins, is a constitutional monarchy headed by Bao Dai, to provide "a thread of legality." "How are these poor people going to run a republic?" asked Collins. "We even have trouble doing it in the United States sometimes...
India's high courts had differed as to when marriage became complete and inviolable. Some judges said that betrothal, i.e., agreement between the parents, made Hindu marriage irrevocable. Other judges held that the tying of the sacred thread around the bride's neck by the bridegroom was the deciding factor, while some courts held that union became indissoluble only after the first night of nuptials. The new bill says that marriage may be solemnized in any form the parties may choose, but it is not complete and binding until each party says in the presence of a government...
...pleasure is precisely what Man of Letters Louis Kronenberger (The Thread of Laughter, The Pleasure of Their Company) can find in books, along with enlightenment and instruction. The Republic of Letters is a collection of literary essays that presents writers as exciting companions rather than as cadavers for hypercritical dissections. A drama critic (for TIME), playwright and novelist himself, Author Kronenberger is not easily pleased, but he refuses to approach books as if the chore were unpleasant. In the essay "Pundits and Philistines," he speaks sharply of his colleagues: "More and more of our serious critics are moving into...
Except for a perfunctory romantic thread, the story is all about...