Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herblock, long one of Nixon's cruelest antagonists, observed the traditional honeymoon accorded new Presidents by giving the man a decent shave. Nixon hardly reciprocated. He installed an arrogant press secretary who treated the press shabbily. He dispatched Spiro Agnew and other sappers to harass the enemy. Aides like Clay Whitehead and Charles Colson sought to stifle network commentary as unfair...
...Mudflat Pottery School, a non-profit organization located in Kendall Square, will be offering courses in potting during the summer at dirt cheap prices. Harvard's pottery studio is closed for the summer, so if you're looking for some place to do your clay work, call 354-9626 for more information...
After years of kicking public television around as intolerably liberal and Eastern-oriented, the Nixon Administration seemed ready to settle its long war with the Public Broadcasting System. If public television would stop trying to be "a fourth network," said Clay Whitehead, 35, the President's chief television adviser, the White House would press for the long-term federal financing that PBS officials felt was needed as insulation from political pressure...
...imposing Senufo figure of a hornbill, with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face and forehead incised in flowing parallel lines and then covered with white clay, the lips transformed into a jutting prism with a star-shaped hole in it-the very embodiment, one might suppose, of authoritative and ordered eloquence. Combined with the other resources of the Museum of African Art, Elisofon's legacy should be a lasting benefit to the capital...
...vicious dogma. Accordingly, says Time on the Cross, the trail of historical error began with the rhetorical zeal of abolitionists. Justly considering slavery a crime against God and man, they did not hesitate to exaggerate its iniquities I and weakness. Abolitionists like Frederick Law Olmsted and Cassius Marcellus Clay and slavery critics like Fanny Kemble were the main source of early stories about widespread cruelty and sexual abuse, and the assertion that slavery was an economic disaster that retarded the growth of the South. The inefficiency of plantations and black labor came as a natural corollary, both in logic...