Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brass have their day, too, with Curtis Le May announcing, "The world is watching us in Viet Nam to see if we put our money where our mouth is," and Colonel George S. Patton III, with an aw-shucks grin, beaming into the camera and describing ARVN enthusiastically as a "bloody good bunch of killers...
...cliched epitome of Manhattan East Side sybarite splendor. Up the spiral staircase one encounters what can only be described as a trophy room. The walls are covered with walnut plaques, shield-shaped generally, though some are rectangular, with gold plates, the gold shellac now peeling away to show the brass underneath, bearing laudatory appreciations from the American Legion, The Veterans of Foreign Wars, and even the Rumsey, New Jersey Boys' High School: " To Roy M. Cohn, outstanding patriotic American, brilliant young attorney, fearless crusader, and defender of the faith against Godless Communism...
...affected pose, which were popular as a decoration atop the family radio console. In his current show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, Lichtenstein displays a series of what he calls "modern sculptures," whose source he proudly admits is his own extensive library of Art Deco. Done in sleek brass, they look as if they should be holding back the crowds at Radio City Music Hall. Another indication of the era's popularity is the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition of the twenties' top cartoonist, John Held...
...exhibition will present several categories of art: South African rock art. bronzes from the former Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria, brass and iron work, sculpture of West and Central Africa. ceremonial masks of Africa, and Poro society masks from Liberia...
...Costa e Silva, an ex-army marshal who had ruled since 1967 but was partially paralyzed by a stroke last August. A military triumvirate took over the government, imperiously brushing aside the civilian Vice President, who should have succeeded Costa e Silva under the constitution. Early this month the brass reached into the ranks of four-star generals to choose Médici, the taciturn commander of Brazil's Third Army, as the new "candidate...