Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 175 examples from Nelson Rockefeller's unparalleled collection of 1,500 modern paintings and sculptures. It is almost impossible to assess such an exhibition. It begins with landmark works of Picasso, Miró, Matisse, Mondriaan, Moore, Maillol and just about every famous name from the first half of the 20th century. But Rockefeller's tastes have not stagnated or calcified. Particularly in sculpture, he has cheerfully moved on to buy many younger minimal artists. Among his newest purchases are the 11½-ft.-tall white Granny's Knot of The Netherlands' Shinkichi Tajiri...
...manifesto itself was less sweeping than Forman's revolutionary introduction. It did demand half a billion dollars from U.S. churches and synagogues as reparations for their role in supporting the "exploitation" of the American Negro. But most of the money was earmarked for such plausible projects as a Southern land bank to aid dispossessed Negro farmers and a new black university in the South...
McKuen's absence from the TV screen until then was a matter of his own choice. He had turned down every offer to do a television special until he could do it on his own terms: a half-hour one-man show over which he had total control and no interference...
...portable parking lots can be built in half as much time and for one-third to one-half as much money as conventional poured-concrete structures. Convenient as they are, they have one drawback. Their appearance- which is most charitably described as functional-does not do much to improve the esthetics of a neighborhood. But what parking lot does...
...three books begins where a cold sociological observation rubs against a poetic perception of slangy slumside talk. Teen-age talk particularly. Years before anyone else had noticed, Maclnnes stopped and listened to the English kids. Their songs and entire culture, he saw, were rocking out in accents more than half American. Years before the Beatles, he predicted (in the memorable essay "Young England, Half English") exactly what the Beatles would sound like and be like...