Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes in his audiences by saying: "Very frankly, when I am moving in a crowd I don't look and say, 'Well, there's a Negro, there's an Italian, and there's a Greek and there's a Polack.' " Before newsmen late last week, Agnew sought -with some success-to make light of the whole thing by referring to himself as "Greek, er, Grecian...
...hours of lecturing this summer at Washington's American University. "One would hope," Mansfield added gently, "that Mr. Fortas no less than any of the other members of the Court would henceforth bear these distinctions in mind." For Mr. Fortas, that advice may have come too late...
Such obvious thrusts at such obvious targets hardly make for brilliant satire. But as monotonously intoned by singer Jeannie C. Riley on a tiny Nashville label called Plantation Records, P.T.A. is the runaway hit single of the late summer and autumn. It seems to have tapped a new anti-middle-class market. One other recent, lesser success is Singer-Songwriter Ray Stevens' Mr. Businessman, which declares in part: "Eighty-six proof anesthetic crutches brought you to the top/Where the smiles are all synthetic and the ulcers never stop." The market may consist either of middle-class youngsters...
...meanwhile is proceeding with plans to launch the first manned Apollo into earth orbit next week on a ten-day mission to check out spacecraft and ground control systems. If all goes well, the following Apollo flight, scheduled for late December, may take three astronauts for as many as ten orbits around the moon before returning them to earth...
Personal Record. In their voluntary exile, the reclusive wen-jen introduced a style that was to last for centuries. Abandoning the sweetly colored realism of the late Sung court painters, they developed a powerful expressionism that glorified a painter's unique "handwriting." Landscapes and bamboo stalks were popular because such subjects put a premium on brushwork. Colors and perspective were largely abandoned, human figures casually sketched...