Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth and the desire to communicate it. And the way he went about it was to hire the best men he could and engage them in what amounted to a continuous dialogue. The degree of autonomy he gave his editors and the interplay of ideas he encouraged was a constant source of amazement to any outsider who encountered it. The late Aga Khan once offered Luce his memoirs for publication-gratis-in LIFE. He was startled when Luce said he would have to pass the offer along to LIFE's managing editor, and bewildered when the answer came back...
...after he was barred, Powell sat in the End of the World and appreciatively ogled Tanyiki Delamour, 24, a Haitian exotic dancer whose specialty is the "voodoo drumfire dance." "Don't get too close; you'll set me on fire," Powell warned. His usual constant companion, Corinne Huff, was nowhere in sight...
...Chinese hierarchy (after Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao) and is perhaps the most pragmatic of Peking's leaders. Though Chou has led many a Red Guard rally in singing The East Is Red and Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman, Chairman Mao, he has been the constant voice of what passes for moderation in China. While supporting the Cultural Revolution verbally, he has fought hard to keep his government administration intact throughout the madness of the past year...
Paradise was, obviously, hellish for the dancers to learn. The music, composed by Modernist Marius Constant, did not even allow them the luxury of discernible rhythms, sometimes consisted only of randomly twanging gongs and thumping drums. It was at times like a dance performed to the sound effects of a shoot-'em-up western. But Nureyev and Fonteyn conquered the unfamiliar idiom, emphasizing in new and exquisite ways the fluid drive and rhythmic power of their artistry...
Playboy was spicy but hardly shocking ?long-forgotten efforts by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Somerset Maugham, Robert Ruark. Playboy also dipped into the ribald classics; despite constant mining, the Boccaccio and De Maupassant vein is still running strong. In the early days, name writers shunned Playboy. Today, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, Herbert Gold, Ray Bradbury and Ken Purdy regularly provide respectable material. This upgrading of fiction is largely due to Auguste Comte Spectorsky,* 56, who was hired from NBC by Hefner to bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine...