Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loud political buildup to the invasion, China underscored the border aggravations to anyone who would listen?at the U.N., in diplomatic exchanges, and in a shower of communiques. Peking also claimed that Viet Nam was mobilizing for war by drafting recruits at a rate that surpassed the height of the war against Saigon and the U.S., and by calling 200,000 ex-servicemen back under arms...
Bourne was succeeded by Mrs. Andrew Young at the height of her husband's unpopularity. The Senate passed, then repealed, and then passed again a resolution to appropriate a minimal amount of funds for the commission's operating expenses. The House never passed such a resolution, because the lobbyists of the President, who had spearheaded efforts in this country to participate in the IYC, "forgot" to introduce such legislation in that body. At this point the United States and a few African dictatorships comprise the select group not participating on a national basis in IYC activities (whatever they...
...what an abstract artist at the height of his powers can do, one should go to the two large relief paintings by Frank Stella, with their flapping, exuberant forms slathered in paint, crayon and glitter: a splendid yawp of vitality. Beside such work, nearly all the abstract painting being done by artists of Stella's generation in the U.S. today looks ei ther timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like...
Danchy explains away the recent vote in the City Council to set a height limit on new buildings constructed in Harvard Square. "We're in the odd year," he says. Odd years mean City Council elections in Cambridge, he warns--and then just smiles...
...Friday: "There is none of the relentless chic. There are no competitive lunch baskets from Bloomingdale's." Luminaries such as Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Stephen Spender, Calvin Klein, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ralph Ellison and Thomas McGuane can be found avoiding their typewriters or agents or both at the height of the season (Thanksgiving through Easter), when the population of 32,000 jumps...