Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became the preoccupation of a lifetime. She could turn out a single swooping bird, a tumbling abstract landscape or a pair of solitary antlers planted in the desert (see color), but in everything she did she pared reality to the bone. And though critics were later to try to fit her into one or another of the modern U.S. "schools" of painting, her art was from the start totally personal and inimitable...
Transition. In visiting 237 schools in 23 states, Conant found wide disagreement over where to fit grades 7-9 in a school system. Some communities keep grades 7 and 8 in elementary school, some plump for a six-year high school, and still others hold that the separate three-year junior high school gives combustible half-adolescents a chance to grow at their own pace. In reality, says Conant, the junior high often becomes "a replica of the senior high school with its attendant social pressures." Hitting hard at pretentious commencements, big-time football and marching bands that "serve merely...
...third in a series of attempts made on eminent political figures since last June. The first assassin, attacking the life of a moderate Socialist leader, had no relations with a rightist group, and except for his hatred of the Zengakuren, he committed his act in a schizophrenic fit. The second attacker, aiming at Kishi, had no intention of killing him, but wanted merely to punish the prime minister for having "clumsily handled the problems of the Liberal Democratic Party." The third incident differed from the previous two in that the youth had undertaken the act out of a genuine political...
They are not the work of crackpots but of reputable men, some of them geniuses. Leonardo himself designed an "ideal city," and Piranesi planned a "cultural center" of moats and courtyards that seemed to fit inside each other like Chinese boxes. More recently, the visionaries have been apt to reflect Le Corbusier's warning that "the problem of the century is the problem of the city." Dismayed by blight and overcrowding, Kiyonori Kikutake designed a city over water consisting of a huge floating deck that would be pierced by great concrete cylinders lined with dwellings. Buckminster Fuller planned...
...whom staff the 143 community health centers to which rural housewives go to give birth. Swedish midwives examine each expectant mother ten times during the course of her pregnancy, lecture her on female anatomy and sexual relations, conduct classes in calisthenics, explain delivery procedure, counsel expectant fathers, even help fit contraceptive devices. When they have completed a three-year course, prospective Greek midwives must intern for a year in a maternity hospital, then serve for another three years in rural regions where trained medical help is short...