Word: blur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their host nations. Officers and men of different races serve happily together in units of the Indian and Malaysian armed forces, where the military-command structure replaces communal loyalties. Above all, as industrialization spreads in Asia, traditional cleavages, based on almost exclusively agricultural ways of life, may tend to blur. In the short run, industrialization and economic competition may bring further strains, but in the long run, the machine does homogenize people. And a better life-even the mere prospect of a better life-can establish a sense of community...
...Gomain Room (so named for a red precious stone, said to be clearer than a ruby), the King spoke of the closeness of Thai-U.S. relations. Then he showed the visitors some of his canvases-the monarch is a dedicated amateur painter. The pictures included one showing a blur of writhing demons in browns, greens and reds titled Subversion...
What did Taft in, of course, was Goldwater. While he counted himself a Goldwater man in many respects, he also differed publicly from Barry on such issues as civil rights and the nu clear test ban treaty. But not quite enough Ohioans saw the distinction, and Young helped blur it by constantly tying Taft to Goldwater's bandwagon...
...death of the President was recorded in several still photographs and on three film strips-though only one of the strips, owned by LIFE, shows the episode in full detail. Nevertheless, the moment of tragedy is represented here in a single frozen frame that shows Kennedy as an overblown blur...
Canaletto's Venice was the 18th century's most worldly and sensual city. In the last, decadent century of its independence, the old republic was all pageantry and intrigue. From Piazza San Marco to the Rialto, it was a gaudy blur of masquers and courtesans, actors, singers and sightseers. As the sunny antithesis of London, and most colorful way-point of the Grand Tour, Casanova's Venice even then drew 30,000 Englishmen a year. So many top-chop Londoners returned with Canaletto's etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city...