Word: jell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early this fall, as plans for the program began to jell, prevailing notion of 20th Century Week laid emphasis the former program, a closely knit series of seminars discussing the impact of U.S. foreign policy and principles economic aid on people in foreign countries--particularly the underdeveloped areas of the world...
...ingredient turned out to be pectin, a carbohydrate well known to many U.S. housewives: it is the substance that makes jelly jell. Keys found that taking 15 grams of pectin daily for three weeks lowered blood cholesterol levels by an average of ten milligrams-"a modest but significant amount." For Americans who want to keep the doctor away, Keys added a familiar note: his 15-gram daily dose corresponds roughly to the amount of pectin found in two ripe apples...
Fierce Impressions. Although the audience took to Alcestis, Choreographer Graham was characteristically dissatisfied: she had not had enough rehearsal time to make movement and symbolism jell. At 66, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Martha Graham still works a ten-hour day. coaxing and bullying her dancers into shape. At her School of Contemporary Dance on Manhattan's East 63rd St., she has eight teachers to help her with some 200 pupils, but it is Graham's own fiercely compelling personality that produces the most lasting impressions. Often she will break off an exercise, recalls a former student...
...Jell-Place of confinement...