Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kerr often brings off a bright epigram: "Cruelty, carried far enough, can turn into Al Capp"; "Inadmissible Evidence is so many slivers run under all the fingernails in the auditorium." No critic, in fact, pays such meticulous attention to his prose. Indeed, he sometimes sacrifices content to style and overwrites. He trotted out a veritable Noah's Ark to praise Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl: "She's like a grasshopper, a shy one . . . she's an eel on a chair, nibbling at flowers . . . second cousin to an octopus on a chaise longue...
...whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a new tool to teach English composition. Asked to write their own haiku (pronounced high-koo), children find that its precise rules and free content pose delightful puzzles, with solutions limited only by the flexibility of their vocabulary and the fetters on their fancy...
...while, Verwoerd was content to stay on at the university, first as a lecturer in applied psychology, then as chairman of the new department of sociology. But gradually he began applying his trade in the politics of the Nationalist Party. In 1933, when Nationalist Prime Minister Barry Hertzog made a pact with the South African Party's pliable Jan Christian Smuts-whom Verwoerd considered a tool of the British-he was so disgusted that he joined Afrikanerdom's ultranationalist secret society, the Broederbond (brotherhood). With a young Transvaal lawyer named Johannes Strijdom, he founded Die Transvaler, an Afrikaans...
Died. Moses Hadas, 66, classical scholar and teacher, a slight, puckish Southerner with a flowing white beard and mustache who believed that the classics grew musty not in their content but in dated translations and interpretations, spent a lifetime renewing them in more than 30 highly esteemed books (including Hellenistic Culture: Fusion and Diffusion, Old Wine in New Bottles) and inspired lectures that filled the halls at Columbia University; of a heart attack; in Aspen, Colo...
...insult to injury, France insists on physical possession of most of its gold. Other nations are content to leave most of their holdings in the New York Federal Reserve Bank's airtight vault 85 ft. below Liberty Street in lower Manhattan. There, gold ingots worth about $12.9 billion are stored-as against the $10.1 billion worth residing in the famed U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox...