Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson's Washington, there is a growing awareness that such problems can be solved only by fostering more creative interplay among the different levels of government. Usually, government is compared to a neatly tiered three-layer cake-composed of national, state and local levels. In fact, as the late University of Chicago Professor Morton Grodzins put it in a 1960 report of the President's Commission on National Goals, it is more like a marble cake, full of unexpected whorls and inseparable blendings. "As colors are mixed in the marble cake, so functions are mixed in the American...
...Because he loved animals so, we put a watering trough in front of his grave," said Rhena Schweitzer Eclcert, 47. "A sheep lambed on his grave, and we think he would have liked that." Whether the late Albert Schweitzer would like what his daughter has been trying to do with his notoriously primitive hospital at Lambaréné since the doctor died last September is another matter. "We have finished the electrification of the wards," she reported, on a rare trip to New York, adding that a refuse-disposal system has replaced the garbage barrels that the goats used...
Beardsley was decadent and dainty, the epitome of the late-Victorian dandyism that prized artificiality over nature. It is a pity that he never used mauve ink. Oscar Wilde once paid him the compliment of calling him "a monstrous orchid," and Beardsley, relishing his role, jotted on the back of one sketch proof...
Nehru's successor, the late Lal Bahadur Shastri, moved toward changing that policy. India's food crisis, he decided, was just too terrible to let socialist doctrine stand in the way of solution. At his recommendation, an agricultural program was adopted last December that, among other things, allows foreign firms to build and operate their own fertilizer plants-and set their own prices. After Shastri died, the new Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing...
Auberon Waugh is the son of the late Evelyn Waugh and a facile satirist in his own right (The Foxglove Saga, Path of Dalliance). The hero of Violets is an epicene idealist who ghostwrites advice columns for a woman's magazine and comforts his faltering ego in a spare-time campaign for world peace. He also campaigns to seduce the white mistress of a Negro extremist, but before he can succeed, he meanders his motorcycle euphorically, and fatally, into the path of a passing automobile. So much, says Author Auberon, for epicene idealists. He has obviously inherited his father...