Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ridiculous or not, knees and the lower thigh are now in the public eye. For still supple gamines who can toss off a handstand or a cartwheel, the new look will fit like an old glove. But for those who cannot resist layer cake and ice cream, Courrèges may take more courage than they...
...Every diocesan survey so far shows widespread support for changes in the Mass, which were approved by more than 90% of American bishops. Among them was De Pauw's own superior, Baltimore's Lawrence Cardinal Shehan. His comment: "I regret extremely that Father De Pauw has seen fit to take the stand that he has professed...
...Johnson's $1.3 billion education bill to provide federal aid to primary and secondary schools. The measure would grant $100 million for textbooks and library books, $100 million for supplemental education centers such as labmobiles, and $1 billion-plus for public school districts to spend as they see fit. For a district to qualify, 3% or more of its pupils would have to be "needy" (from families with less than $2,000 income)-which takes in approximately 90% of the nation's school districts...
...Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Wesleyan's Center for Advanced Studies has attracted Author Paul Horgan. Some artists become permanent faculty fixtures, such as Yale's Novelist Robert Penn Warren and Minnesota's Poet Allen Tate. Saul Bellow, temporary writer in residence at Chicago, has fit so unobtrusively into the faculty that Coed Barbara Samuels observes: "For us he's the teacher, not the great novelist...
...criticizes the United States for exploiting his country's resources and supporting military-elitist coalitions. He speaks with a peculiar mixture of hostility and admiration of "our North American neighbor." "People now ask," he says, "which will live longer: General Motors or Brazil? The armies you aid are only fit for the oppression of their own people, the occupation of their own nation. By supporting these dictators, you are guarding stability and preventing communism, but you are also suppressing the popular will. The loans of the United States can sustain the present government, but they will not bring the changes...