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...Movement." In the back of the church, four tight-trousered cats from the pool hall down the street looked a little incredulous. A carefully dressed young woman, a student from a nearby Negro college, turned a near chuckle into a slow, wry smile. But the revolutionaries did not interpret individual expressions, and only stood, a little in awe, before the great body of black faces for which they were now to become a head...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: Failure in Albany II: The White Minority | 11/12/1963 | See Source »

Historians, for their part, like to interpret fashion as a reflection of world events. Thus women's clothes in the Middle Ages blossomed with a new luxuriance of embroidered accessories under the influence of the loot brought back from the Crusades. The French Revolution temporarily reduced women from elaborate confections to simpler citizens. And the emancipation of women after World War I changed them almost overnight from being "all bosoms and bottoms," as Mrs. Patrick Campbell once wisecracked, to flat-chested, flat-hipped, shingle-headed imitations of little boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Gilding the Lily | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...Carrell Morris, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Chemistry and a member of the water board, said last night that it would need "legal counsel to interpret the results." He observed, however, that there were no technical obstacles to discontinuing fluoridation once the board gave the order...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: City Votes Down Fluoridation; Sullivan, Crane, and Wheeler Win Reelection as Councillors | 11/7/1963 | See Source »

...conception of director David Wheeler, The Bald Soprano,by Eugene Ionesco, is neither farcical nor dead serious. Rather, like the hysteria of a madman, it is full of terribly important messages which are difficult to interpret...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Dock Brief and The Bald Soprano | 10/31/1963 | See Source »

...will aim to scrutinize, report on, explain and interpret the many aspects of law in the modern world. It will deal with court decisions, new legislation ranging from local ordinances to acts of Congress, opinions of jurists and lawyers, personalities in the profession, and even quirks. The first section this week offers a sample of the range, with stories on how the U.S. Supreme Court works and the principal issues it will consider this year, on the president of the American Bar Association, and on the Gideon decision in Florida involving the right to counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 18, 1963 | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

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