Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visible, audible evidence suggests that U.S. patriotism has taken a different turn and declined. One pointed comparison: in 1942, despite segregation, Joe Louis happily served because "what's wrong with my country ain't nothing Hitler can fix;" in 1967, despite great progress toward desegregation, Cassius Clay refuses to serve because "I don't have no quarrel with those Viet Congs...
Overlooking the town stood the red-roofed villas of the French plantation managers. Tropical flowers climbed their villa walls from green lawns, and their country club boasted a large swimming pool and a red-clay tennis court -the remnants of a prewar colonial past...
...Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower belong; so do Dean Acheson and James F. Byrnes-thus accounting for every living former President and Secretary of State. Dwight Eisenhower's last Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates is a member, as are A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, General Lucius D. Clay, former Harvard President James Bryant Conant, ex-Governor Pat Brown of California and retired Senator Leverett Saltonstall...
...business-school graduate (class of 1936), Arbuckle started off with Standard Oil of California first as a personnel officer, later as an organization analyst-with time out for wartime Navy duty as a PT boat squadron commander (for which he won a silver star) and on General Lucius D. Clay's staff in occupied Germany. He later joined a statewide California dairy company, and in 1950 went to W. R. Grace & Co., where he became an executive vice president before moving to Stanford...
...moonlike women's heads with protruding noses and eyes set in their cheeks that seem to float like his "classic" line drawings and etchings of the 1930s. The busts were inspired by Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso's mistress of that period, modeled in clay and cast in bronze-yet the world heretofore has known them only by the paintings he made of them...