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Word: beare (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Djakarta, his first ambassadorial assignment, he replaces genial Howard P. Jones, whose seven years of effort to win over Sukarno with tolerant understanding did not deter the Bung from continuing to heap contempt and ridicule on the U.S. Whether a blunter approach will bear fruit is anyone's guess. The U.S. sympathizes with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Coping with the Bung | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...Benin was wrought to please the despotic king, or Oba, and nearly all the paper-thin plaques bear holes where nails attached them to the columns of his royal palace. Since wood rots, almost no pre-19th century African art remains save Benin's miraculous bronzes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: The Bronzes of Benin | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...Hatred is too much for me," confesses the disturbed American woman who is the heroine of this novel, "I can't face it." She means hatred for her ex-husband, a middle-aged philosopher who is a venerable pooh-bear to everyone else in the world but a dragon to her. To escape his continuing attentions she runs away to Italy, takes up with a pushy, pragmatic American. Alas, she finds she is tied to both men. In the end, the ties are suddenly severed: the lover leaves her, her former husband dies, and she is left with nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Aug. 6, 1965 | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...will probably please most of the people who go to see it, and that is where the pity lies. Director Michael Cacoyannis has assembled a neat package of cinematic goodies wrapped in effective technique which appears fine until examined. But one should not trust the Greeks, especially when they bear gifts, and similarly one should not trust this film...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: Zorba the Greek | 8/5/1965 | See Source »

...Beatty raised rabbits, guinea pigs and skunks as a boy, at 15 responded to the lure of the circus by signing up as a $3-a-week helper. His goal was to be an acrobat, until he twisted an ankle, got a chance to fill in on a polar bear act ("a bear will bite you ten times to a big cat's one"), and began his career as an animal trainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: King of the Beasts | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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