Word: felted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a wrench, the mood of Czechoslovakia suddenly changed. Resuming operations, the official press, radio and television began to speak of the Russian invaders as "the visiting fraternal forces." Overt opposition all but ended, and most Czechoslovaks did their best to tolerate their unwanted visitors. While they still felt great animosity to ward their occupiers, they nonetheless recognized that since they had not resisted at the moment of the invasion, it was useless to provoke repressive measures by acts of defiance now. As a result, the country began to assume at least a veneer of normality. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath...
...Real Blame. Rhead does not find it surprising that the police reacted to stress the way they did in Chicago. "I would expect that every policeman felt that he was doing his duty." The real blame, according to Rhead, "falls on the leadership, from the lieutenant up to the mayor. I think it is possible to control such a situation with effective and tight leadership." Instead, Daley did nothing but encourage force by making it clear long before the convention that he considered the protesters to be an ill-kempt, subversive and alien breed to whom the city would...
...Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention could not be held for long by a figure that had nothing more remarkable than eyes like his own. To make sure this would not happen with his portraits, he endowed his enigmatic paintings of doll-like figures with eyes that are anything but normal...
Although the gloom over the fall term is lifting, graduate deans are fearful of a slippage of students during the year as draft machinery catches up with them. Since boards can allow students to complete any semester they start, the real impact could be felt at first term's end. But unless manpower needs suddenly increase, grad schools may find themselves inconvenienced rather than crippled...
Ever since Pope Paul's controversial anti-contraception encyclical, more and more priests and theologians have felt compelled to publicize their disagreement. Their actions inevitably raise a question of discipline; the answer depends on the attitude and personality of the bishop involved. In some cases the response has been stern indeed...