Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finances and snarled ties. To the children-Kathleen, 5, Robert Jr., 3, and Joseph, 4-it was often a circus as Ringmaster Robert Kennedy cracked dossiers like whips and fired questions like pistol shots. If sometimes the kids fell into daydreamy boredom, it was perhaps because they missed the main event-a performing bear named Dave Beck who specialized in playing dead at the drop of a query...
...signs of the prodigious energy of the most dynamic and disturbing artist of his time. Ferocious bronze owls glare from under the palms, a huge stone head of a woman lies in the basin of the fountain, plywood pipe-players are scattered about the lawn. Inside, the three main rooms are jammed. Canvases crowd the walls, spill out of crates. Weird ceramics stand in disheveled confusion on the floor. The rest of the space is taken up by a litter of objects that Picasso collects compulsively, objects that may set him off on a new theme or be incorporated into...
...market for leather shoe soles, and two-thirds of the market for household soap. Last week, prompted by the recent report of the President's Commission on Increased Industrial Use of Agricultural Products. Congress was considering a handful of bills to authorize a concentrated attack on the problem. Main point of the report: while industry is spending some $3 billion a year on developing new consumer products and improving old ones, combined governmental and private agricultural research totals only $375 million-most of it to grow larger crops...
Hook holds that the "wisdom and justice" of the privilege against giving self-incriminating testimony are far less self-evident than most of the other provisions of the Bill of Rights. He cites two main reasons given by Griswold in the amendment's support: 1) "It is cruel to require a man to provide evidence of his guilt"-this Hook calls, in Jeremy Bentham's words, "the old woman's reason," pointing out that punishment itself is cruel; 2) "it constitutes a protection for the innocent" -that, according to Hook, is "far from conclusive until we know...
...personalities and incidents concerning all but the two main characters are submerged in the usual modernized cowboy-and-Indian routine, punctuated with moral statements such as "A man has gotta fight for what he believes in" and the like...