Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tomorrow's election may give the Council minority the chance they have been awaiting for nearly two years--to loosen the ground under the City Manager's feet. If they succeed, Cambridge may soon see a replay of the bitter days of January...
...time of the prior conviction is also important. If it took place many years before and was followed "by a legally blameless life," it "should generally be excluded on the ground of remoteness." The court also felt that previous convictions on the same charge "should be admitted sparingly," with perhaps only one allowed. Finally, the court noted, even if the convictions are otherwise appropriate to impeach credibility, the trial judge may still bar them-if the defendant's testimony is so important that he should not be deterred from giving it by fear that his convictions will be offered...
...years Chicagoans have talked about founding a museum of modern art to complement the city's long-established Art Institute. But not until 1964, when 30 critics, collectors and dealers met at the home of Critic Doris Lane Butler, did plans get off the ground. And not until 1966 was President Joseph Randall Shapiro able to find suitable space for the new museum-in a handsomely renovated onetime bakery on East Ontario Street. There last week, with a rafter-raising cocktail party replete with macromesh dresses and one dead woodpecker hung around a girl's neck by Artist...
...success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends to follow suit. "I think of a museum as a place of experiment, a proving and testing ground, a laboratory," he says. "I want to show what is living in the minds of artists today...
...demonstrate his virility by dancing to the Entry of the Boyars. Suddenly the whisky-soaked, lead-limbed captain is transformed into the dapper young officer of long ago. As he elegantly foots the steps, Olivier conjures up unseen reviewing stands, flying banners, and the martial music of the parade ground. But the inner man is spent, scarred and empty. He loses balance and slumps to the floor as if someone had leveled a hammer at his forehead...