Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic courtroom line. Yet when Assistant State's Attorney William Martin from Chicago put the question last week in Peoria, 111., the words cast a galvanic spell over the room. In response to the prosecutor's question, Corazon Pieza Amurao, 24, stepped down from the witness stand. The pretty petite (4 ft. 10 in.) Philippine girl, who alone survived the massacre last summer in which eight fellow student nurses were stabbed or strangled to death in a South Side Chicago apartment, walked toward Defendant Richard F. Speck, 25, and raised her hand toward his head. "This," she said...
...series of postage stamps bearing the likenesses of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and a composer named Edward Kennedy Ellington. It is all very flattering to the Duke, but it would be a mistake for the people of Togo-or anywhere else-to think that this honor stamps him as a classic of the past. If anything, the Duke, at 67, is writing more jazz and writing it better than ever before, continually shattering and recasting the mold of his musical thinking...
...chance to go to "concerts, movies, and do lots of things" she never had time for before. Brenda Conner, a biology student, spends most of her day working on a pet project-a study of the distribution of histones (basic proteins) in chromosomes. One group of students organized a classic-films discussion group. Others spend the day tutoring children in Vine City, an Atlanta Negro slum...
...prosperous, highly civilized region with a well-developed bureaucratic system of local government, and an elaborate social structure, fairly comparable to Detroit." By a fluke of custom and climate, the residents of Faiyum are today among the best known-or at least most clearly visualized-citizens of classic times. On display last week at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where Peck is associate curator of ancient and medie val art, were lifelike portraits of 23 of Faiyum's distinguished residents (see color page) gathered together from museums in the U.S. and Canada...
...Russell, now 94, presents a psychological conundrum of a similar order. Renowned mathematician, logician, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, he writes English with all the precision and lucidity of which the language is capable. Yet for all its clarity and wit, the first volume, instantly acclaimed in England as a classic, leaves unresolved problems of character. To some, he is a crypto-mystic, to others, a heartless brain. Most recently he has become an excessively emotional organizer of peace marches who mouths anti-American propaganda drivel...