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Word: lied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps if these words were heeded, the disgraceful nonsense perpetrated by a handful of malcontents would cease. As a graduate student, I often wonder how these demonstrators have so much time to lie around in corridors and march through the streets echoing the inane rallying cries that some long-haired, empty-headed rabble-rouser has put in their mouths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...pale, sunken shadow of his once robust self, Ruby continued to look back on the assassination even in his final illness. Though his claim has already been corroborated by two lie-detector tests, he wants to take another test, says his brother Earl, "so that people will be convinced that there was no plan on his part, or conspiracy of any kind," to kill Oswald. "There is nothing to hide," Ruby said last week. "There was no one else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequels: A Last Wish | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Kabylia region, once-fierce tribesmen wait like famished eagles for postal checks from sons and nephews working in France. The once-flourishing port of Oran is almost idle, and at the nearby town of Arzew, heralded as one of Algeria's leading new industrial zones, building sites still lie empty because of the shortage of foreign capital. To add to the misery, farm land in western Algeria has been burned black by the worst drought in a decade, cutting the year's grain supply in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Blushing Strongman | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Gain v. Loss. Not surprisingly, Justice William O. Douglas was stirred to hot protest in defense of privacy, one of his current constitutional passions. "We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy," Douglas argued, as he ticked off "rampant" use of bugging, wiretapping, lie detectors, personality tests, police entrapment, and even "peepholes in men's rooms to catch homosexuals." As Douglas sees it, the whole picture reflects an official "philosophy that the means justify the ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: A Pragmatic View of Privacy | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first modern artists to put abstraction into the visual vocabulary of 20th century painting. Yet roots of Kandinsky's modernism lie more in the soul than in any scientific mood. For him, folk art with its romance and spiritual energy was a vital source, just as it was for his contemporary Stravinsky, who made brightly violent music, such as The Firebird, out of traditional Russian folk tales, and the sculptor Brancusi, who derived his mythical Maiastra bird from a Rumanian fairy tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Abstract Icons | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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