Word: fittings
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When tens of thousands of refugees from Southeast Asia poured into hastily prepared camps in the U.S. last spring, many Americans were deeply troubled. Would the refugees aggravate the bloated unemployment rate? Did they carry exotic diseases? How could they possibly fit in? Last week the 100,000th Indochinese refugee was quietly relocated-and the nation hardly noticed. Officially, at least, he was Pham Phu Quoc, 38, a former South Vietnamese army officer who was settled near Racine, Wis., last week with his wife and their eight children...
Like others who have paid calls of late, Atkins found Nixon in good spirits. He looked bright-eyed and fit, showed a touch of the old presidential bearing and vigor and was seemingly determined to demonstrate that the Nixon household had weathered Watergate and returned to normality. Atkins' color photographs, shown exclusively in TIME on the following pages, bear out those impressions...
...where do these pants fit in with the old image of Cleaver, rapist? In Soul on Ice, he wrote, "I became a rapist. To refine my technique and modus operandi, I started out by practicing on black girls in the ghetto--in the black ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day--and when I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically....Rape was an insurrectionary...
Other scraps that might fit into the whole picture include a tip that Trypanis is promoting a personal favorite for the chair--Speros Vryonis, Jr., Professor of Byzantine History at the Near Eastern Center of the University of California in Los Angeles--and a statement form the Harvard University Press that a book of Ioanna Tsatsos titled My Brother George Seferis is "under consideration...
...interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the writing on an 8th century Koran page: the angular Kufic script done in a swordsman's strokes, decisive and muscular; the rich gold foliations round the white chapter heading; the placement of red dots, fit to make Mondriaan despair. Nevertheless, it is frustrating not to be able to read the page. (In a less exalted context, this becomes an advantage: neon signs never look more beautiful than in Arabic...