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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed to survive for some time now, catch as catch can, the fat and the lean, and if the dinosaurs don't trample us to death, and if the grasshoppers don't eat up our garden, we'll all live to see better days, knock on wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age: Muted Gaudeamus | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...August 75. Surrounded by 600-odd party leaders at the Kuomintang's Tenth National Congress, Chiang himself sounded the keynote for "overall reform." The President, although as lean and ascetic as ever, must by now know that his dream of a return to the mainland is a hopeless chimera. Indeed, for the past two years the Generalissimo has told his people that the struggle against Mao's regime must be political rather than military. In such a contest he obviously needs a revitalized, rejuvenated party, one that not only presents an attractive image abroad but that can also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan: Seeking a New Image | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...Lean and Brassy. What will surprise most listeners is Dylan's voice. Gone is the muffled, macadam-topped speech song of old. Instead, Dylan is definitely doing something that can be called singing. Somewhere, somehow, he has managed to add an octave to his range. The voice itself is still pinched, but it has a brassy, unstrained quality that suits his lighthearted material perfectly. Singing, he never makes a move that is not absolutely necessary. All is lean, tasteful and fun, as in a twanging blue-grass ditty called Country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Back to the Roots | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Though he once taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he never studied writing. Instead he specialized mainly in chemistry and anthropology at a congeries of colleges (Cornell, Carnegie Tech, Chicago) during and after World War II. To earn a living in the lean years, Vonnegut, who is the son and grandson of prosperous, German-stock architects in Indianapolis, has worked as a crime reporter, a Saab dealer, and flack for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. "I started to write," he recalls, "because I hated that job so much." Schenectady keeps turning up in his books as a grim, upstate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Price of Survival | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...doors. The twelve panels tell the story of the life, death and heavenly triumph of Mary, from her birth to St. Anne and her presentation in the temple (lower lefthand panels) through her Assumption into heaven, and ultimate veneration as Mother of the Church. The figures are angular, lean and ascetic, suggesting portraits by El Greco. Shrady cast forty individual hands for the work, because he believes that they "express everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Holy Land: Homage to the Incarnation | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

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