Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he received the Mark Twain Gold Medal, Sir Winston Churchill wrote me: "It will serve to keep fresh my memory of a great American, who showed me much kindness when I visited New York as a young man by taking the chair at my first public lecture and by autographing copies of his works, which still form a valued part of my library...
...department under Bobby. Katzenbach feels that antitrust work has been too scattershot in the past, hopes to sharpen the focus of trustbusting onto areas that have "the most important impact on the economy." And one of Katzenbach's pet projects will certainly get fresh attention: the need for better legal aid for the poor. The department's new Office of Criminal Justice is studying the questions of bail, proper counsel and pretrial publicity as they affect indigents...
...might teach the world he left behind. The mere fact that he happened, said Historian Will Durant, "silences the grumbling of a thousand pessimists." Said Adlai Stevenson: "Like the grandeur and power of masterpieces of art and music, Churchill's life uplifts our hearts and fills us with fresh revelation of the scale and reach of human achievement." Yet, he concluded, "our world is thus the poorer, our political dialogue diminished and the sources of public inspiration run more thinly for all of us. There is a lonesome place against...
...Dior suits have flaring jackets and full, pleated or gathered skirts. Dresses, in sunny pastels and fresh flowered prints, acknowledge the shapes they clothe; so do the coats, with narrow belts that define waistlines instead of camouflaging them. There was not a pair of pants or a bared navel in the show, or a single lament for their absence. The Bohan brand of exotica-soft silk tunics, rajah coats, full-length sheaths cut above the ankle in front-may have been inspired by the designer's trip to India last fall. But the results are all Paris...
...evasion, finally breaks with her shadowy husband and goes to jail. She is believable at first because she is so remarkably irritating, later because her repetitious moralizing becomes so remarkably dull. She wears platitudes the way other women wear perfume, and the fact that many of them are fresh, new platitudes does not keep them from becoming stale...