Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis. Under Dictator Batista, the chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge. In the city of Matanzas, thousands of Cubans were penned up in the baseball stadium, and when they sent up a chant of protest, guards fired submachine-gun bursts over...
...only beginning to show herself. With only the richest buyers and biggest museums able to afford a master painting, collectors are discovering the virtues, both as art and investment, of the humble master drawing. A drawing is small, convenient to transport, easy to hang, and above all, it is apt to reveal more about the artist than any painting...
...apparently healthy, the President sighed with relief, smiled, and said: "It's a success.'' That the U.S. had been willing and confident enough to attempt the flight in public view was a fact that could only impress the world. Wrote London's Daily Telegraph, in apt summation of the gamble's payoff: "Technically, the Americans were runners-up. Morally, the cup is theirs. Nobody can doubt that Commander Shepard really...
...proposed increased spending on space exploration and guerrilla warfare forces-programs which, though urged as defense rather than economic measures, would obviously have impact on the economy. But when it comes to programs whose only declared purpose is to spur the economy, Congress and a tax-conscious public are apt to balk, convinced-no matter what the economists say-that even a moderate recovery is evidence that things are going just the way they should...
Since he is painter, sculptor, writer, and a poet of sorts as well, his colleagues are apt to wax rhapsodic over him. "He is the Leonardo of our time," says Michigan's Eero Saarinen. "He has provided enough for a whole generation to live on," says Walter Gropius. "The world's greatest architect," says Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. Adds Arthur Drexler, director of the Department of Architecture and Design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "I go through phases in my thoughts about his work. In these, I sit back and think Corbu is even...