Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York air route, put discreet pressure on congressional leaders to approve a long-pending agreement to open consular offices in selected U.S. and Soviet cities, and authorized the exchange of weather information with the Russians. Further, he has suggested several more substantive steps: a mutual reduction of forces in Central Europe, a treaty against the spread of nuclear weapons, a pact governing the peaceful uses of space, a tariff reduction for the Communist bloc, and the lifting of bans on travel by Americans in Albania, North Viet Nam, North Korea, Cuba and Red China...
After chugging through a lecture on corporate finance at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., New York Central Railroad President Alfred Perlman, 64, had some rueful observations about the finances of the iron-horse business. "Most people don't like to go somewhere tied down by a train schedule," he said. "This means going by car. It's only when it's snowing that you like to go back to the good old days on trains." Then with a wry smile, he admitted: "I have a pass on the New Haven Railroad, but to get there, I drove...
...spoke at Ole Miss, he said he wished that his friend James Silver could have been there. After the speech, a number of the students asked who Silver was. As one amazed faculty member put it, "Most of them seemed to think he was some New York Jew." The central figure in the post-riot struggle against the closed society has largely been forgotten...
...absence of the age's central figure in each case would have had the same result: an impoverishment of art through the deletion of the single commanding talent whose work outshone all others by its virtuosity and brilliance. As to what prompts Picasso to warp space, torture and distort the image of man and reconstruct the world according to his own dictates, even Picasso himself is not certain. "Painting is stronger than me," he says. "It makes me do whatever it wants...
There the Dunster House Drama Society has made the mistake of staging Ben Johnson's Volpone, a play as unsuited to student production as any ever written. Its central characters are mostly lecherous old men, its settings myriad, and its comic style demanding of the highest caliber of acting. The fact that Volpone can also lay claim to being one of the greatest comedies ever written becomes irrelevant under the weight of all the obstacles it presents to an untrained cast...