Word: nik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bike Boy, The Nude Restaurant, and other 1967 films by Andy Warhol. There is a sublime moment in The Nude Restaurant where an idealistic peace-nik turns to the magnificent Taylor Mead and says, "All war protestors are beautiful." Mead, who thinks of war protestors as so many warm male bodies, grains at the camera and says, "Not necessarily." The double-meaning here is central to Warhol's cinema, as it reveals the ease with which two people can escape one another completely. In Warhol's films, people talk at one another, strive for self-definition and expression...
...histories, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev may be dismissed as a mere transitional figure. But in Russia's painful move from a malevolent monolith to a more responsible member of world society, he was essential. His Cold War contemporaries described him variously as a Red Hitler and a Jolly St. Nik, a shoe banger and a shrewd geo-politician. Before his ouster in 1964 by less colorful but more pragmatic men, Khrushchev had justified at least some of those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down from...
Stapleton drew Clay Hamlin, Penn's top player, in his first match, and lost 3-0. Hall's opening match was against the tournament's seventh seed, Princeton's Nik Kourides. The Crimson senior led 14-9 in the second game before losing...
...Quitniks." Fulbright's tactics have certainly encouraged the G.O.P. Says Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott in a speech planned for a Lincoln Day luncheon this week: "Today a tiny proportion of Americans counsel a 'quit-nik' policy. These quitniks have found their voice in a bloc of members of the Democratic Party. At this rate, President Johnson may have to sue his own party for nonsupport...
KREMLIN RUMBLING WITH NIK RUMORS, gave way to NIKITA QUITS...