Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states were pushing up like exotic flowers from the jungles and savannas, from the cloud-rimmed mountains and sandy wastes of the last continent to awaken politically. Despite the daily shedding of blood from the Mediterranean littoral to the Cape of Good Hope, independence has come quietly and with peace to most of Africa's 240 million. If Algeria is at last on the way to peace, only the Congo currently remains as a running sore...
...Sept. 5) to a large degree abandoned the austere international style that has dominated modern architecture, instead dipped far into the past for inspiration. The five archways and the tapered columns on the front portico go back to the Greek stoas and the Renaissance loggias that looked down upon Mediterranean plazas. The Great Hall is severe but rich, and Johnson's elegance manages to shelter whooping cowpunchers and bucking broncos without dampening their bronze spirits. The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art is meant to display the Old West, not to tame...
...above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices of life that it is impossible to dislike her. Among the tenants Author Lessing found types who, at first glance, might resemble people anywhere, but who in looks, sound and character prove...
...Christ of the Gospels, imagined and loved within the dimensions of a Mediterranean world, capable of still embracing and still forming the center of our prodigiously expanded universe...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Mediterranean is the prize in "Hinge of Fate...