Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present German problems are, at least in part, evidence of the fact that we are not yet in reality an established democracy. And isn't it exactly that that should worry...
...shudder from such a convulsive exercise of Yugoslavia's new freedoms brought Marshal Tito himself to Slovenia for a long business lunch with Smole under the ironic guise of a "routine medical checkup." Rediscovering politics Western-style, the Slovenes were by and large delighted with themselves. "Isn't it a mess?" asked one official with a smile. "Isn't it a refreshing mess...
...Nothingness Isn't Negative." Two artists who master the minimum: Tony Smith, 54, whose 11-ft.-high Amaryllis is a black steel construction that bends like the Japanese art of origami, or paper folding, and Robert Smithson, 28, whose Alogon, also of black steel, cantilevers from the wall like a sawtooth set of staggered boxes. Their works are as unsettling as a spastic octopus sculpted by Michelangelo might have been...
...Kaiser Wilhelm for his birthday. Yet, the grandly useless gift can be endearing, and while most Americans cannot give mountains, there are other possibilities. Among them is the sauna built for one, developed by New York's Hammacher Schlemmer as an alternative to the standard size ("because it isn't easy to find the right five people to take a sauna together"). The Dauphin of France set a standard for the anti-gift when he presented the young Henry V with tennis balls, in insolent reference to his playboy reputation, and paid the price at Agincourt. Modern givers...
...seemed willing to pronounce Alcindor "unstoppable" and "the best college center in history"-everybody, that is, except his own coach, John Wooden. "Lew has a long way to go," said Wooden. "He may be as agile as Wilt Chamberlain was at this stage in his career, but he still isn't as agile as Bill Russell." Adds Assistant Willie Naulls, who played with Russell on last year's pro champion Boston Celtics: "Lew is just a boy. He's barely 19, still growing and far from maturity...