Word: closer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open its doors to its 1,234 whites and seven Negro newcomers. Overly cautious, foresighted school officials delayed too long the day's most obvious move: unlocking the front doors. Hundreds of white pupils milled restlessly outside when the Negroes arrived, smiled hopefully, walked forward. Plainclothes police moved closer. Reporters, TV cameramen clustered noisily. "Hey, coon," hissed a leather-jacketed teenager, and reporters' pencils scribbled. But Virginia's Governor had not made riots respectable. Negro and white pupils solemnly waited for the doors to open, entered in orderly fashion to register for the new term. By week...
Strollers along Manhattan's Madison Avenue last week did a double take at the Contemporaries Gallery windows. There seemed to be blank papers, framed and on show. A closer look from a sharp angle revealed that the papers were actually prints, but made without ink. They were geometrical constellations of straight, raised and interlocking lines, embossed on the paper. On close inspection the lines proved to border geometrical shapes in space, which seemed to keep shifting. These were puzzle pictures by Abstractionist Josef Albers...
...intention of decentralizing its academic or disciplinary administration down to a Quad level. Faculty members will live in the Quad and eat in the dining room, but they will not have any formal responsibilities. But Goheen and Lippincott hope that this informal student-faculty contact will make for a "closer interpenetration of academic and non-academic life...
During his 20 years as a Vatican diplomat in Bulgaria and in Greece and Turkey, John is said to have grown optimistic about the possibilities of closer relations with the Eastern church...
Whites in Salisbury were distressed by the recent bloody riots in the Belgian Congo; last week they found troubles closer to home in Nyasaland. There, when police in the capital city of Zomba tried to break up an illegal parade in honor of the ubiquitous Dr. Banda, a riot broke out in which cars, shops and offices were stoned. In Salisbury, something sprang up called the European National Congress, dedicated to "the unity of the white race in all Africa in the face of the rising tide of black nationalism...