Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such restraint are largely beyond Juan Carlos' control and relate to Spain's strained domestic political scene, but it is nonetheless true that the Prince so far has failed to either excite a feeling of loyalty among his future subjects or emerge as a convincing, sympathetic human being. Asked by reporters what qualities he most admired in the Prince, a member of the Cortes replied: "I admire his simplicity and his exquisite prudence...
Meantime, the Federal Government itself has become the nation's biggest polluter. All sorts of tunnel-vision agencies, from the Agriculture Department to the Army Corps of Engineers, have pursued narrow goals that destroy delicate balances in nature and sometimes endanger human life. The glaring need is an overall body to coordinate the goals and protect the environment in a systematic...
...Fine Arts in San Francisco. Then, in 1955, he found himself in something of a bind, as he describes it, bored with splashing color around with the total freedom that abstraction allows. He felt a sudden need for "a kind of constraint," and found it by painting the human figure. He thereby ushered in a vital school of Bay Area artists who found a fresh range of figurative interpretation within the loose, easy brushwork of action painting...
...fight over a banking empire run by a family patriarch (Ralph Bellamy) would not keep TV viewers tuned in for very long. So he decided instead "to deal not with the abstracts of wealth but rather with the emotional problems of rich people. Our stories will be about human beings faced with all kinds of swirling emotional forces, told against an enormous backdrop, but with the same kind of problems as you and I." Translation: kink...
...Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author, a civil engineer-who keep the number open around the clock. At the other end are the lonely people of Davenport who hunger for the sound of a sympathetic human voice...