Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, after the Ray trial and while still in the process of changing his mind about retiring from criminal practice, Foreman sat, stripped to his undershirt, on the edge of his Memphis hotel-room bed. There, he held court for fascinated newsmen and expounded his theories about the declining art of criminal-law practice. Most of today's young lawyers, he said, are much too gutless to take on criminal cases. "They are afraid to leave the library for fear they'll make a public ass of themselves in court." Perhaps it is because of this shortage...
...rather absurd one at that? Certainly. But it is also something more. The numbers of Americans who have found astrology fun, or fascinating, or campy, or worthy of serious study, or a source of substitute faith, have turned the fad into a phenomenon. Astrologers insist that since their art is actually a science, its renascence was foreordained. The world, they contend, is just entering the Aquarian Age. The movement of the vernal equinox westward at the rate of about 50 seconds a year is bringing it from 2,000 years in the zodiac's sign of Pisces ?characterized...
...himself to writing and promoting the cause. Omarr, 42, a former news editor for CBS radio and the most skillful and sober public protagonist astrology has, is interested in aligning the antique art with the modern disciplines of psychology and space science. Then there is Constella (100 papers), a cheerful, overweight 72-year-old New Englander (Shirley Spencer) who started writing a graphology column for the Daily News in 1935, but switched to the stars nearly 20 years ago. She feels that many of astrology's new converts are refugees from religion: "We're afraid...
...other Western cultural developments. If they dropped into Prague's Café Slavia around 4 p.m. any afternoon, they could have encountered several of the reasons why. A group of artists and writers who meet there have for years been assiduously importing and translating Western books, plays and art publications. One of their leaders is slender, Jiři Kolář, now 54, essayist, play wright and, by general acknowledgment, Czechoslovakia's leading poet...
Many admirers of Kolář's poetry are still furious with him for having abandoned the pen for the pastepot. But Czechoslovak Art Historian Jiři Padrta suggests that Kolaf's word-cluttered collages have contributed more to a "latent freedom of writing" than his poems ever did. Nothing proved the point so well as the Russian invasion of Aug. 21. All the walls of Prague and all Czechoslovak towns blossomed with writing-defiant slogans, protests and simple anti-Russian graffiti. Then, says Padrta, "the main squares were like one giant Kolář collage...