Word: acted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Act as if you were going to live forever and cast your plans way ahead," Gropius wrote. "If your contribution has been vital, there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality...
...colleagues were enraged because Zeffirelli had been campaigning against the current flood of sex films in the Italian cinema, saying that they show sex as vulgar and ugly and suggesting that some moviemakers on the edge of bankruptcy had been saved by pornography. Countered Zeffirelli: "I committed no antidemocratic act. The association is a Mafia in which dissenting voices and opinions are not allowed. I am happy and honored to have been expelled...
...Baker v. Carr (1962), which established that federal courts may intervene to protect the rights of a voter if state legislators do not act to correct malapportionment in voting districts. Proclaiming that for one man's vote to carry more weight than another's is a denial of equal protection of the law, the court ruled in subsequent cases that voting districts of unequal population were illegal for Congress (Wesberry v. Sanders, 1964), and for legislative bodies in the states (Reynolds v. Sims, 1964), and in local government (Avery v. Midland County, 1968) as well...
...performed at its world premiere by the venturesome Hamburg State Opera, the three-act music-drama is a lurid vision of hell on earth. Horror builds to a crescendo as sacral scenes of church and cloister are followed by wild orgies of the possessed nuns and a ludicrous exorcising ceremony in which the crazed sisters howl, shriek and twitch like wolverines in heat. Present in nearly every scene is a revulsive chorus of guttersnipes, beggars, epileptics and whores who leap and leer with a demonic joy reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch...
Such candor is required by Federal Reserve Board Regulation "Z," which takes effect July 1. The 59-page regulation tells what stores, banks, finance companies, auto dealers and other cred itors must do to comply with the Truth in Lending Act that Congress passed last year. Among other things, the consumer must be informed in advance of the exact amount of any loan or credit, including insurance premiums, any excess of an installment price over a cash price and the exact length of time he has to pay. He must also be told the precise annual interest charge. In most...