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...failed to mention that the city also showed a voting preference for the city-manager form of government. We are all hoping for a brighter tomorrow...
...stripes are the marks of fortune's lash on his dark skin; his claws exist only in his mind and are unsheathed only when he swipes at matters his naive mind cannot understand. Tiger is a Trinidad peasant who made a half charming, half pathetic appearance in A Brighter Sun (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953). In that book, Tiger went from mud hut to modest brick house on wartime U.S. dollars. Now Tiger is back, and he has two major problems. The bigger one comes from having driven his primitive mind to absorb Plato and Shakespeare: What do I want...
Academic accomplishment suggests the main shared value of all modern Harvard classes--that of scholarship. '59 was "brighter" than any Harvard class which preceded it. Its average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests were higher, as was its predicted academic performance. '59 quickly fulfilled its predictions: in its Freshman year, it placed a higher number of people on Dean's List than preceding classes...
Early last week the bright face of the sun showed even brighter spots, each of them a gigantic explosion tossing gas and magnetism deep into space. Blasts of charged particles crossed millions of miles of space and smashed into the earth's magnetic field. In each case there was no warning of the approaching storm; it hit the earth with a sharp initial pulse, lasting about a minute and followed by violent fluctuations...
...paint splatters. There is no trace of his earlier furiously hacked and lacerated images of women. In his present works De Kooning, without relenting in either slash or splash, has clearly moved toward landscape. The raw tones that De Kooning himself called "circus colors" are now fresher and brighter; images swim closer and more sturdily to the surface...