Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subtle achievement to have described their lives with compassion but without sentimentality. His style is graceful, disciplined, direct. Occasional Italicisms will distract American readers, and few of the characters are drawn in detail. But Bassani's principal concern is with mood and meaning, and his leisurely, Proustian sentences brush and burnish a world of unexpected symbols. Although the novel is about Jews, it is only incidentally about Jewishness; the Finzi-Continis' confrontation with Fascism is employed to expose a painful paradox: life can be understood only in the past, but only in the present can it be lived...
...Announced his intention to establish a United Nations fellowship program in memory of Adlai Stevenson. Details are lacking, but broad-brush plans call for recruitment of young people from U.N. member countries to "intern" in U.N. agencies. The program is similar to the White House fellowships, awarded this year for the first time to 15 young Americans who in September will begin to work in Washington...
...Democratic Governors with using the program for political purposes-"both in the same poker game, and both have the same marked deck." New Jersey Republican Peter Frelinghuysen taunted Democrats about difficulties at some OEO centers (TIME, July 16). "Many mistakes have been made," Frelinghuysen said, "yet we try to brush them under the rug. This program does not deserve an additional penny...
They have been kept standing too long. For the past ten years, rebellion has been smoldering in the south. Two southern political movements were formed in exile to demand independence from the north. From hideouts in the papyrus swamps and upland brush, guerrillas organized by still another group, a terrorist band known as the Anya Nya (Bad Medicine) began raids on government garrisons. Army reprisal from the north only increased the natives' hatred of the "slave catchers" and their "Arab occupation army." Offers of political integration were listened to politely by the southerners, only to be rejected...
While Gemini 4 orbited the earth, Astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White did not brush after every meal, but in stead chewed a new gum called Trident, which helps clean teeth by using enzymes to break down dirt and bacteria...