Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the field in Western Europe some time next year. Pershing's success adds a heavy wallop to the U.S.'s arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. These weapons give the U.S. and its allies, especially in Western Europe, a vital potential for ground war beyond the brush-fire level and less than all-out thermonuclear holocaust. Among the Army's other tactical nuclear weapons...
...first the incident gave the appearance of a violation of academic freedom to some people. For the artist's brush would be synonomous with the reporter's pen or typewriter; therefore the censorship seemed unjust--so unjust that several art students protested with signs saying: "Unfair; Ours is a visual language; We protest censorship; Freedom of expression; and Freedom?" As one onlooker remarked, "This proves that Ole Miss can have demonstrations without rioting...
...pencil lines and scattered smears of color that they presage modern abstractions. "Nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her." Cézanne wrote. Hour after hour, facing the warm vistas of Provence, his eye sounded the depths of nature, and, dipping his brush into his wet colors, he deposited the traces of color that are the record of a contact with nature more direct than most men ever know or envisage...
Arjay Miller bears a marked resemblance to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, an old friend and onetime associate. Both men have stern faces, brush their dark hair straight back, and are thin-lipped and hard-eyed behind their spectacles. "I'm proud," says Miller, 47, "of any resemblance to Mr. McNamara." But the resemblance goes far deeper than appearances, and the qualities that both men share last week boosted Arjay* Miller to the presidency of Ford Motor...
...senses that the Actors Studio has not entirely prepared him for the responsibility. He attempts an important voice, but most of the time he sounds like a small boy in a bathtub imitating Winston Churchill. He ventures a diplomatic brush, but his upper lip produces merely a promising smear. He sports an expensive cutaway, but the more he tries to be elegant the more he looks like a stevedore at his daughter's wedding. Through the stuffed shirt peeps the T shirt, and at his most ambassadorial moments Marlon is unmistakably a man who longs to scratch. The customers...