Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent weeks, Katushev has been visibly the busiest man in the capital. He shuttles back and forth to the airport to welcome visiting political leaders and ambassadors from the East bloc. On the outcome of such meetings, and of the Communist summit, rests his future. If Katushev continues to operate at the pace he has set so far, his climb should be unstoppable. Even if the older men in the Kremlin can resolve the differences that have divided them, time is on the side of dynamic young technocrats like Katushev. Within a decade, they are bound to rule Russia...
...white sheets and hoods moved up to encircle the rostrum. "Strom Thurmond loves burning yellow babies and starving black babies," read one of the signs they carried. A Thurmond comment on Viet Nam ("We'll have to fight elsewhere if we don't win here") brought forth chants of "Kill! Kill!" When the Senator finished, he left amid a barrage of obscenities from black students...
...wind, and viewers could almost feel the jerk as the or-ange-and-white main chutes opened, abruptly slowing the descent. The scene ended with the sky and clouds gyrating sickeningly, and the colorful chutes appearing and disappearing in the window as the descending Gumdrop swung back and forth...
...sometimes almost machine-tooled canvases of Louis or Noland. It is certainly there, but hidden, just as men make it a point of honor not to cry and to keep a stiff upper lip. On the other hand, Helen Frankenthaler's art deals outspokenly with emotion. It bubbles forth with irresistible elation, and could have been used long before now to show that abstract painting can have a heart...
Other antic notions emerge as well. Militant playfulness seems to predominate in Sea Scape with Dunes. Its thorny blobs march across the canvas in a shape like a sea-horse at bay. A flamelike, almost scarifying vitality leaps forth from Interior Landscape, twisting savagely sidewise, up and around. Only the deliberately faded grays and greens, and the firm blue square in the middle, keep the painting from dissolving into a chaos of raw emotion. Still, any really good abstract painting, Helen argues, "plays on your emotional gut. It gets to you, and many people would just as soon leave that...