Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week in Toledo, the Vice President promised that, if elected, he would "reassess the Viet Nam situation in light of the assistance that is required from the U.S." As the South Vietnamese army improved, he added, he would "move toward a systematic reduction in American troops." The pledge was hardly startling, since that has been the Pentagon's goal for some time...
...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...
Huey P. Newton, the handsome, light-skinned leader of the hypermilitant Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, stood impassively as the sentence was handed down. He had been convicted of manslaughter in the shooting of an Oakland, Calif., patrolman during a wild gun battle in October 1967, which left another policeman injured and Newton grievously wounded with a bullet through his stomach. It was one of the acts of war between police and Panthers that have bloodied the streets of Oakland for almost two years. Now, as Newton's black-uniformed followers looked on in silent anger, Alameda County...
...world, the most distinctive styles are often the most motley. Imagine, for instance, a vocal mixture of Johnny Mathis and Ray Charles with a Latin American flavor and a classical-tinged guitar backing. That musical hybrid is José Feliciano. In recent weeks his single release of Light My Fire and his LP entitled Feliciano! have both spun high on the bestseller charts. He has drawn cheering, sellout crowds to performances at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He seems to be in demand everywhere, for television shows, movie sound tracks, personal appearances...
Original prints, even huge day-glo posters under black light are in their way more valuable than photographic reproductions of the Great Works of Fine Arts 13. With the poster you not only have the "picture" designed by the artist but the materials, the consistency and the total visual effect. With a paper edition of Rembrandt you hold only a deceitful shadow of the real object without the thick oil texture, the density, the depth that make the work great...