Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, prove a political boon to the G.O.P. After his attack oh Humphrey, the initial speculation was that he had damaged the Republican cause. That feeling eventually gave way to another. In 1968, a year when a strongly conservative mood has gripped many voters (see box, page 22), such a note of toughness may attract even more people than it repels...
...does not, most McCarthyites will dutifully go to the polls anyway to vote for local candidates, write in McCarthy's name, vote for a fourth party in the few places where that will be possible, or simply leave the presidential box unmarked. Unmarked ballots are counted in presidential elections, and the abstainers hope that there will be enough of them to shake the party hierarchy...
...Berlin museum bears a marked resemblance to a classical temple set upon a giant podium of granite-covered concrete. The podium, or semi-basement, is occupied by the burgeoning permanent collection, but the upper gallery, designed for special exhibitions, dominates the museum. It is simplicity itself: a glass-curtained box with a 213-ft.-square roof upheld by only eight burnished-steel columns. Mies has carried out his concept with subtlety. The columns, for instance, are tapered ever so slightly toward the top-as are the Parthenon's classical Doric columns. Although the museum's 6-ft.-thick...
...also recalls that, in a household of overwrought women, he was often left alone as a small boy to play with forbidden toys: sharp umbrella spokes and matches from the kitchen, pins and needles from the sewing box, mirrors and broken glass from a chandelier. These perilous playthings metamorphosed themselves in his mind into icons against the savage man-made destruction outside. Today Lucas Samaras continues to craft them into prickly, disturbing drawings and assemblages. They suggest that pain and anguish lurk in the commonest household object, yet at the same time they glitter with a prideful...
...Cancer Center, a nurse saved the seeds sloughed off by the tumor and had the salvaged gold made into a ring for her boy friend. He developed red patches on his finger. Memorial's physicists found that the ring was radioactive and locked it up in a lead box where, 16 years later, it remains...