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Word: lightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light of the confusion over Doty's name, Ptashne said he thought Dorfman owed him an apology. "These men argue on extremely high principle, and then we find out that Doty's name shouldn't have been on the statement, and that Dorfman is questioning our motives in the Globe...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Doty Says He Didn't Join Group Opposing War Vote | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...year old author is latest novel, Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, is not quite on par with his previous effort. The Man Who Cried I Am. published in 1967: but then, that novel was a literary masterpiece. Sons of Darkness is about the American racial dilemma and the catastrophic events it produces in 1973. But more than that. Sons of Darkness is about the rights human beings have and the wrongs which they suffer. Its fundamental message is that when a society, no matter what its political structure or philosophy, so oppresses a people as to choke off their...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: From the Shelf Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light 279 pages; Little, Brown and Co.; $5.95 | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...thought it was too big to consult with, or too meaningless to consult with. It was only too big because it met on the second floor of University Hall and an architectural consultant for the University said that the Committee was too big and too heavy a group, in light of the weakness caused to the structure of the Administration building during the April occupation...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: Can't Tell the Players Without a Program | 10/4/1969 | See Source »

...relied instead on applying more manpower. The Cubans appear much more conscious of the need for technology. The Chinese made the mistake of trying to develop industry and agriculture simultaneously, and thus deprived both of enough resources to function. The Cubans are concentrating exclusively on agriculture and the light industry associated with...

Author: By David Blumenthai., | Title: Brass Tacks Cuban Leap | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...films document man assuming the central persona of conquistador in his environmental relationships. The natural is defined as the pastoral, fragmented by the threatening angles of girders and consumed by the relentless forward movement of concrete progress. More explicitly, the natural world for Baillie is a world in which light plays freely; in man's world light is confined refracted, or invented (for instance, the use of lighted store interiors as a metaphor for death in Mass for the Sioux Dead ). Baillie's most frequent subject is the interaction between a poetic Nature and an ugly modernity, producing a restriction...

Author: By Joel Haycock, | Title: The Moviegoer Films of Bruce Baillie Second in a two-part retrospective at the Harvard-Epworth Church, 7 p.m. | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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