Word: gripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface signs of freedom, the Soviet army still holds the city in a firm but inconspicuous grip. More than 40,000 Russian soldiers are stationed in Hungary, and though they keep to their camps, their armor is always ready to roll. Many Hungarians hoped that Khrushchev's visit might be timed to a withdrawal of Soviet arms. Budapest officials doubted that this will happen...
Spain's bid for associate membership in the Common Market was at stake, and el Caudillo was willing to relax his autocratic grip a bit in order to convince the Eurocrats of his sincerity. Last week in Brussels, on the eve of the 25th-anniversary celebration of Franco's Civil War victory, Spain's two-year-old application finally got a hearing...
...Philadelphia Museum College of Art says: "What I want to do concerns more than just shapes, forms and colors with no relation to a subject. There wasn't enough life in abstract art for me." The life that he paints seems to have a pretty tenuous grip on itself. In a show of 23 recent works that opened last week in Manhattan's Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Goodman's three-panel Trilogy suggests a man who enters a closet and hangs himself. His realism is obtuse, his figures often secret sharers in politely observed crimes or Baconesque participants...
...heartening lessons in his brush with disaster was the O.A.U.'s willingness to forgive him. Nyerere, after all, is a leader in African unity, permits his capital to be used as headquarters for the O.A.U.'s Liberation Committee, whose aim is to crack the white grip on southern Africa. This is one of the few issues around which all black Africans can rally. Dar es Salaam (Arabic for "Haven of Peace") further belies its name by serving as the home base for at least seven African insurgent parties dedicated to eradicating colonialism and apartheid from the south. Largest...
...lonely scuffle. Straight bop? which still determines the rhythm sense of most jazzmen?was only a passing phase for Monk. He was outside the mainstream, playing a lean, dissonant, unresolved jazz that most players found perilously difficult to accompany. Many musicians resented him, and he quickly lost his grip on steady jobs. Alone in his room, where he had composed his earliest music?'Round Midnight, Well, You Needn't, Ruby, My Dear?he worked or simply stared at the picture of Billie Holiday tacked to his ceiling...