Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris summer of 1794, the fall of Robespierre signaled the end of the Reign of Terror and opened a fresh era of calm and consolidation. It was the year II in the new French revolutionary calendar, and the month was named Thermidor. In his classic analysis, The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Harvard historian Crane Brinton called Thermidor "a convalescence from the fever of revolution...
...could suddenly change, and all the old bitterness and violence could come back redoubled by a new sense of failure. If whites in industry, in labor unions, in government, indeed everywhere, decided that the relative calm in the ghetto meant that they could relax rather than press ahead with fresh help, welcoming the blacks into all parts of American society, then the result could be racial chaos far worse than any the U.S. has yet known...
...tiniest spark to explode. Last week, however, Washington viewed the current situation coolly, and the State Department said merely that it was counseling "restraint" to both sides. Moscow made no comment publicly, but U.S. diplomats believe that the Soviets have no interest in escalating hostilities and risking a fresh beating for their Arab clients at the hands of the Israelis (see box following page). The Russians, accordingly, are warning Nasser & Co. to be cautious...
...found in the group's first LP, Blind Faith (Atco), which reached No. 3 on the Billboard chart this week and has topped $1,000,000 in sales in only a month. Win-wood's composition, Can't Find My Way Home, is a farm-fresh plaint, which he sings in a sad falsetto over Baker's insinuating brushwork and the harpsichord-like plucking of two acoustic guitars. Blind Faith's version of the old Buddy Holly tune, Well All Right, skips along with a blithe country feeling, and Clapton's Presence...
Setting Records. Barron came back to the family business by a roundabout route. When his father rebuffed his first effort to land a well-paying Hilton job, the young man began selling fresh fruit juice to Los Angeles dairies. The venture prospered and helped pave Barren's way into the family firm...