Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH, by Louis Keren. The Washington correspondent of the London Times casts a sympathetic eye on the U.S. political system. TO BROOKLYN WITH LOVE, by Gerald Green. The excitement of Brownsville during the Depression is evoked in this memoir disguised as a novel by the author of The Last Angry...
...Brooklyn Museum is shaking thousands of museumgoers out of their visual lethargy by exhibiting, as works of art, all kinds of functional things, including toys, appliances and scientific equipment. The show represents the 130 best-designed items of 1967, selected from among 1,000 U.S. entries by Industrial Design, a magazine that has hitherto saluted the annual winners by publishing photographs. Now, with the objects themselves on display, it be comes even clearer where handsome designs are prevalent in daily life - and where they are conspicuously lacking...
...fact is, there often is no message. Havens, 27, a Brooklyn-born Negro who performs with compelling fervor, exemplifies the tendency of today's singers to avoid urging anything on the listener, but to try to embody an emotional state that makes its point indirectly. California's Tim Buckley, 21, says that he prefers to sing for audiences who "just want to feel someone's pain and happiness." And like most of his colleagues, he is confident that, as he intones in the Larry Beckett lyric for The Magician...
With votes from 357 of 358 precincts in the Brooklyn district, the vote was Podell 29,982, Dubin 23,474, Republican Gerald L. Held 3935, and Conservative Michael T. Anjello...
Last week surgeons at New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn described an antiseptic suture that seems to be just what Lister was looking for. Dr. Harry H. LeVeen and colleagues reasoned that if old-fashioned silk suture thread offers hiding places for germs, it will also have room to absorb a fair amount of antibacterial chemical. After swelling the silk to make it still more absorbent, they soaked it in a preparation of benzethonium, a modern, potent germ killer. Then they tested the sutures in mice, and got 100% protection against infection for at least five days...