Word: grasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garde Pole considered "one of the most controversial figures in contemporary music." Zak's "work" was a dreadful cacophony punctuated by rattles, bangs and random blows on a xylophone. Next morning the music critics passed learned if mystified judgment. Wrote the London Times: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly because of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Agreed the Daily Telegraph: "Wholly unrewarding...
Addressing Filipino lawmakers later in the week, MacArthur indicated that he was still of the same mind. The failure of the United Nations forces to win the Korean war was "a major disaster for the free world," he said. "With victory within our grasp and without the use of the atom bomb, which we needed no more then than against Japan, we failed to see it through. Had we done so, we would have destroyed Red China's capability of waging modern war for generations to come...
...disike the habit of entrusting so much instruction to graduate students." But his strongest criticisms involved the lack of imagination among many graduate students, many of whom he found "prematurely old and cautious, as if they were absorbing the vices of academic life before they had a chance to grasp its virtues...
Nobody Knows My Name goes on from where Harlem-born Author Baldwin left off in Notes of a Native Son (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955). In the intervening years, his indignation as a Negro and as an American has grown, but so has his intellectual grasp. There is wisdom of a kind in Baldwin's warning that "the South will not change-cannot change-until the North changes . . . The country will not change until it re-examines itself and discovers what it really means by freedom . . . Walk through the streets of Harlem and see what we, this nation, have become...
Heloise is the wife of an Air Force lieutenant colonel stationed at Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base and the mother of two children. Her grasp on good housekeeping is scarcely older than her column. "I didn't know you had to clean a John until six months after I got married," says she. Once, before guests arrived for a garden party, she dressed up brown spots on 'her lawn with green vegetable dye. But her homely hints are usually followed to the letter: when she recommended putting a cup of water inside a turkey to keep...