Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enabled Gomulka to overcome- for the present-the most serious challenge to his leadership in his twelve years as party boss. Last week, in a droning five-hour speech at the meeting that once loomed as a trial of strength for his job, Poland's No. 1 Communist felt secure enough to dispense advice to comrades throughout Europe...
...term in the White House runs out. However, he also wants to avoid any semblance of bullying Thieu to the conference table. Thieu's task is equally complicated. Standing up to the U.S. won him such enthusiastic support from Saigon's politicians and generals that he felt compelled at one point to promise: "I will try to keep flexing my muscle as long as I can." At the same time, he was prudently laying the groundwork for sending a delegation to the talks...
...which had been called in to clear the campus during earlier disorders, was summoned again. A faculty meeting, convened to decide whether or not the faculty should join the strike, voted instead to demand the resignation of Chancellor Dumke for having ordered Murray's suspension. Many faculty members felt that Murray's provocations were intolerable and that he purposely sought suspension in order to rally support for earlier B.S.U. demands. But they resented Dumke's intervention in college affairs even more. The faculty also voted for a "suspension of instruction," and within an hour, savage new outbreaks...
Brewster presented the plan to the Yale Corporation only a few days before he made the announcement. The faculty got only a few hours' notice. Brewster was acting in haste, he said, because he felt that a trial would be far more instructive than "further abstract study." It is a "drastic move," he admitted, but one which, if carried out "with style and quality," will put "Yale in a position to enhance greatly its contribution to the generations ahead...
...Castelli Gallery last February, showed off crude fiber glass forms, limp latex-and-cloth sculptures, and a stuttering neon sign that proclaimed "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths." Minimalist Morris blossomed forth at a Castelli spring show with billowing grey strips of industrial felt...