Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which damages and demeans its recipients and destroys any semblance of human dignity that they have managed to retain through their adversity." Unless the U.S. achieves "a virtual revolution in the organization of our social services," he warned, "the result could be the ripping asunder of the already thin fabric of American life...
...time for Mailer to write his "big novel," and it is said that he's hard at work on it. He's 44, and his moment is at hand; can he produce a book so large in vision, so perfect in execution, that the entire fabric of the national character is irrevocably altered? In its agony, the country cries out, he feels, for such a book, such a man. Mailer thinks he's got the guts and the talent to pull it off. That he has the personal grace and the devotion of a champion is conceded...
...quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form, demanding better schools and opportunity to share equally in the country's growth. In the early 1960's French separatism, including cells of bearded conspiratorial terrorists, was a major threat to Canada's very fabric as a nation. There was serious worry that Canada might disintegrate. The most striking fact about the present Canadian scene is that this threat has for all practical purposes disappeared...
...Architectural League, Levine had what he called a "Slipcover" exhibit. Three entire rooms-floors, ceilings and walls-were hung in a thick, shimmering silver fabric that reflected the people looking at it, and was used as a screen for projected slides, including, by way of a signature, pictures of Levine himself. In addition, two of the rooms had huge bags of the same material, which were regularly puffed up and then deflated by wind machines. To some, they looked like pillows for the Jolly Green Giant, to others, like an overwrought udder. Levine explains that he goes in for environmental...
...general, the Band had trouble coping with the Hindemith, evidencing flaws which were absent else-where. Hindemith takes a Straussian delight in piling up layers of motivic material, creating a massive and complicated fabric of sound. There are simply a lot of notes to get through, and often the Band gave the impression it was plowing through the music rather than performing...