Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fringe. But since it is undeclared and slow to take shape, the Viet Nam war has hardly aroused the star-spangled fervor of World War II, when entire fraternity chapters tramped off to the post office to enlist en masse. The fight does not seem to have the relatively crisp delineations of Korea, where the United Nations underwrote the U.S. commitment and the Red Chinese invaders were clearly an enemy...
...chairman assured Defense Secretary McNamara: "I am not taxing you with this directly." He asked, nonetheless, how the Secretary viewed the question of prostitution in South Viet Nam. Crisp as always, McNamara replied: "I have not been to Saigon since Nov. 30. It was not a brothel then and I do not believe it is today." "You do not agree?" demanded Fulbright. McNamara emphatically did not. "I think we do a disservice to the Vietnamese and to our own men when we characterize it as such," he said quietly. "I do not mean to say there are not prostitutes...
...mirage of the second chance, lost youth, lost inspiration, lost love recovered. But life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like a wave crashing on a steep beach. Celia Johnson, as his wife, is as bleakly crisp as burnt bacon. However, Maggie Smith as Hilde is too much the calculating minx, seemingly unaware that the sliest seductive weapon of the young is youth...
...alike is how familiar the exhibition looks, not because Gabo's work is familiar-it has rarely received such a substantial showing-but because of the pervasive influence his ideas have had on young moderns, particularly kinetic and op artists. Gabo's fragile spatial constructions, in their crisp, cool elegance, impersonal statement, exacting craftsmanship and knowing use of synthetic materials, evince all the artistic values so esteemed today-but they go back 50 years...
Brown put up a fight in only two matches -- the first and fifth singles contests. Senior Bob Higginbottom, scoring consistently with his crisp, high volleys at the net, took the first set from the Crimson's Dave Benjamin. Higginbottoms' volleying was considerably poorer on low balls, but Benjamin's control was off and he couldn't keep the ball down...