Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proponent of gradualism," he said, "but I don't know how to change the system." The Negro, he concluded, must appeal to the system's "fuzzy, dim, but existent conscience" through nonviolent demonstrations...
Though he says that his eyesight is growing weaker in his dim cell, Siqueiros still wields a dancing brush that creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. His jail-made Dancer wishfully wraps a cape of anatomy around a vaulter's pole. His forceful, lavender-colored Mother and Child casts the swaying shadow of a madonna into a posture of freedom. In keeping with the size of his studio, the paintings are small; their message is that the great talent, having been put in the cooler, is frozen...
...formidable opposition of Redman Bob Kennedy, who has swum the 200 in better than 2:24, and the loss last week of Bill Chadsey, former Harvard record-holder at the distance, made Crimson hopes for a one-two finish in the event dim at best. But Kennedy was off his form, and Fowler beat his teammate to the finish in the so-so time...
...editors of TIME put a high premium on range and diversity in coverage of the news - from political maneuvers in THE NATION through the bright (and dim) lights of SHOW BUSINESS and the discoveries of MEDICINE to the ideas of THEATER and the thoughts in BOOKS. One way in which that concept is illustrated in this week's issue is the ten editorial color pages produced under circumstances as diverse as their subject matter...
Celler vowed he could not recall that sex had ever before been an issue in the civil rights bill. Remarked New York's Republican Representative Katherine St. George, the reason might be that sex was "just a dim memory" for the 75-year-old Celler...