Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCHISM, bitterness, demands for violent solution, disenchantment with the way things are, fear of what may be-these are the forces, some would say the demons, that are loose in the U.S. in 1968. The demons accompanied the Democrats to Chicago. A deeply divided party met amid paroxysms of violence in the city and obsessive security measures that surrounded a major function of U.S. democracy with the air of a police state. A bitter but rational argument about the Vietnamese war was traumatically translated into street battles between protesters and police. Nominees and other speakers spent valuable time condemning...
Even so, Americans have never before undergone so many sustained surprises both at home and abroad as they have in the past year. Last summer Israel smashed the Arabs, Red China exploded its first H-bomb, Johnson met Kosygin in New Jersey, the Bolivians killed Che Guevara, the Nigerian civil war began destroying Black Africa's most promising nation, and Negro rioters ran wild in Detroit and Newark...
...rocket attack since June 21. The rockets whooshed in during the early morning hours, and 19 of the 122-mm. projectiles hit in two salvos. Seventeen Vietnamese civilians and a Japanese correspondent were killed. The National Assembly building took two hits, but damage was so slight that the deputies met as usual...
...steered him to painting. When Roussel enrolled with an art teacher, Vuillard decided that he also wanted to be a painter, and succeeded in enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Unhappy with its rigid academicism, he transferred to the somewhat freer atmosphere of the Academic Julian, where he met Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Vallotton. Calling themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets), they formed a group to perpetuate Gauguin's theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object," the symbolist poet had written, "is to do away with three-quarters of the enjoyment. To suggest...
...much easier to do a piece on somebody you've never met before and you'll never see again. It's hardest when it's somebody you like. Valentines are the hardest things in the world to write...