Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furor began when Enoch Powell, 55, a right-wing Tory M.P. from the industrial Midlands, launched an attack on an antidiscrimination bill introduced by the Labor government to protect Britain's 1,000,000 coloreds-a term that covers shades from light tan to dark black and encompasses Indians and Pakistanis as well as African and West Indian Negroes. Powell, a onetime teacher of Greek and a classics scholar, has a record for independence and strong-mindedness. Having decided in 1963 to try for the Tories' top job, he refused to serve in Alec Douglas-Home...
...different subject-namely Baby and Child Care. The handbook that made the good doctor a fortune (20 million copies to date) is being published in Russian-which may bring more nyets than da, da, das once Russian mothers get a load of what he says. Spock advises light garments and laying babies on their stomachs, but Russian mothers swaddle infants tightly and set them on their backs; he urges early feeding of solids, Russian gurglers stick to milk and cereal; he advises never force a child to walk, while Russian parents want their offspring...
Company Clerk. Viewers as well as everyone else at CBS are delighted with Broun's essays. Still, Broun has a few reservations. Covering sports is interesting enough, he says, but sometimes he "feels like company clerk to the Musketeers or veterinarian to the Light Brigade." He would like on occasion to participate actively in something, he explains, and if the right role in the right show comes along, well, he's ready to chuck everything. It figures. As Broun says, "I'm either a Little League Renaissance man or simply a person who can't make...
Other environmentalists see their works as means to engage the viewer in a new kind of emotional release. New York's Tony Martin, who designed light displays for San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium and Manhattan's Electric Circus, is currently showing his Game Room in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery. As each visitor steps onto one of the four sets of marked footprints (red for fire, blue for water, yellow for air and green for earth), he triggers photoelectric cells that set in motion a rapid-fire sequence of images, lights and sounds. Nature lovers (green...
...tooth for a tooth.' Ye have heard it said, 'sideswipe for sideswipe, right-of-way refused for right-of-way refused.' But I say unto you, 'Turn the other fender.' If someone gets in your way at a green light, let him be first at the next light. And whosoever shall try to pass thee imprudently with a less powerful car, slow down to let him do it more easily. I say unto you, love your enemies, love those who drive dangerously. They are in peril...