Word: clays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corner of the room a man kneaded and shaped figures in clay, as Hubbard peered down from a photograph. The student, according to Velona, was taking abstract concepts like fear and anger and shaping them into simple shapes. He was bringing "significant, immaterial concepts down to earth," Velona said...
Kennedy finally sent someone of mettle to Berlin: General Lucius Clay, who had been military governor of the U.S. zone during the 1948-49 airlift. When the East Germans started harassing American officials entering their sector after the Wall was built, Clay ordered an armed escort to accompany the Americans through the checkpoint; then he brought up tanks to the border. The Soviets in turn sent then" tanks to confront the Americans. For 16 tense hours, the two superpowers were thus nose to nose. Though White House advisers were rat tled, Khrushchev finally backed down and withdrew his hardware...
...time ago they proposed an Asian security system; they have now signed treaties with a military component with Afghanistan, India, and now with Vietnam. The Chinese see this a very threatening development, and I think it is worth nothing that the invasion of Cambodia showed the Chinese up with clay feet: they weren't able to help their Cambodian ally. This put the Chinese in a very difficult position, and they may feel they need to assert themselves...
Khomein today remains as poor as it was then. People and animals share one-story clay hovels; water is scarce. Instead of seeking out the mullahs to resolve disputes, the people are now subjected to the local police and to the bureaucracy in Tehran, 180 miles away...
...crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President; Redford and Hoffman enshrined the heroic reporters as symbolic successors. The entire journalism profession swelled with newly inflated prestige, power and self-esteem." In Rosenbaum's cunning roman à Clay, however, the gleaming knights of the choice tables are less interested in truth and light than drugs and kinky sex, and they are otherwise as morally flawed as the conspirators of the Nixon White House. But then, that is something the folks in Peoria have suspected all along. - Donald Morrison