Word: finger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Squad" is proof that someone who is paid to keep their finger on the nation's pulse thinks that America is scared of its young. America is afraid of the rock and roll army, scared of its rejection of their values, scared of the drugs kids take instead of alcohol, scared the kids might really be having fun in spite of the imminent wrath of God, scared that it might be true when the young say that adults lives are boring, trivial, and nourishing as spit...
...most impressive assets. In the central role, Donald Pleasence gives a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity; Harold Pinter directorially chills the stage to doom temperature. The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat. In an elegant private chapel, dim as a catacomb, a finger of light rests on Pleasence as he kneels rapt in prayer. The Verdi Requiem saturates the air like incense. Suddenly, the stage is ablaze with light, louvers are turning, and the backdrop becomes a penthouse view of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips to enjoin the monks to silence...
Washington can do little more than wag a finger. Earlier this year, President Johnson succeeded in rolling back Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s price boosts of almost 5% with threats of diverting Government steel orders. The Administration has no such leverage over the car industry. Instead, it must count on the keen competition among automakers themselves to do the job of keeping prices down...
...A.M.A., two doctors in northern New York report cancer-type changes caused by a radioactive ring. When a man had a cameo ring remodeled in 1946, the jeweler inserted a piece of "new" gold. After ten years, the man had so much discomfort on his left ring finger that he transferred the ring to his right hand. Eight years later, that finger also was irritated and inflamed, so he stopped wearing the ring. Too late. This year, the left ring finger had to be amputated for cancer...