Word: ics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ic of poetry," reading the works of French and German authors during a stay in Europe. But paradoxically he was finally "swept off my feet" by a German translation of the poetry of Walt Whitman, who, as Borges put it, "did what the others (Shakespeare, Swinburne, et al) had tried...
...task of drafting a unifying platform, Nixon tapped as chairman of the ic>3-member Platform Committee a bright young nonpolitician: Charles H. Percy, 40, sometime boy wonder who became president of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) at 29, increased its sales eightfold and its profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform...
Married. Yul Brynner, 39, shaved-pate, Vladivostok-born Hollywood star; and Doris Kleiner, 32, Yugoslavian-born brunette, now a Paris fashionhouse director; ic for the second time, she for the first; n Mexico City, five days after his divorce from First Wife Virginia Gilmore...
...City Tone Poem. World War II soon drowned out Durrell's voice while ic served as a British press attache in Athens, Cairo and Alexandria. In 1952, ic was ready to begin the "Big-City Tone Poem" that had been bubbling in his mind for more than a decade, only to lave the Cyprus crisis force him back to press-officer duty amid the tragic rup-;ure of Anglo-Hellenic relationships, which Durrell later movingly described in Bitter Lemons (TIME, March 24, 1958). Finally, in the years 1956-59, beginning in Cyprus and ending in Southern France, Durrell wrote...