Word: crystallizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as a youngster in Crystal City, Mo. (pop. 4,000), Bradley seemed too good to be true. By the time he started tenth grade, he was already his present height of 6 ft. 5 in. In high school he scored 3,066 points. An honor student, president of the Missouri Association of Student Councils, Bradley sifted through something like 75 college offers, at one point had almost decided on Duke; he even signed a "letter of intent" to accept a scholarship. But then he started rereading college catalogues-and decided that Princeton was brainier. "I don't want...
...knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade pulls the composition together, drawing attention to the writhing dragon underfoot-a creature all the more monstrous for its emerald scales and egg-sized ruby warts...
...Crystal Clear. Editorial comment also zeroed in on Johnson's position on civil rights. The Baltimore Sun thought that he had made it crystal clear: "No one can now doubt where Lyndon Johnson stands on the issue." The Detroit News, while agreeing, speculated on the impact on Congress, concluded that "Southern opposition has been placed in a difficult position." Columnist David Lawrence, who in his time has found merit in the South's position on the race problem, interpreted Johnson's remarks as "a compromise," and in that spirit endorsed them...
...heart of Munich was struck by a fire-bomb raid. The incendiaries that crashed through the 160-ft.-high roof of the National-theater ignited a fire that burned for three days, melting the crystal chandeliers, blackening what remained of the ornate bas-reliefs and frescoes, consuming even the ranks of ivory chairs. For nearly two decades, the ruins of the 125-year-old home of the Bavarian State Opera stood as a grim souvenir of the war, a macabre memorial to its own glorious past...
...Night Mourned. All over West Germany, ceremonies marked the 25th anniversary of Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal), when Hitler's Storm Troopers went on a nationwide rampage against the property, dignity and life of the 400,000 Jews who had not yet fled their German homeland. Synagogues were put to the torch. Thousands of Jewish stores were plundered and had their windows smashed (hence the night's bitter nickname). Thirty-six Jews were murdered and 25,000 arrested...