Word: owlish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister Delegate to the Premier, with four responsibilities-the Sahara, atomic energy ("but not the bomb"), overseas territories and overseas departments-but he prefers to be known by his unofficial title, Minister of the Sahara. A solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman," and "the most dangerous...
Chicago's Art Institute, the third most important museum in the U.S. (after Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery), has a new director: owlish John Maxon, 42, who made his reputation for lively exhibitions and museum-community cooperation as director of the comparatively tiny museum of the Rhode Island School of Design...
...Socialist from West Berlin made a violently anti-Communist speech last week. "The U.S.S.R. has not given up its hope to rule the world," said Socialist Deputy Chairman Josef Braun. "The occupation rights of our Western friends in Berlin are our only protection. We must remain firm." An owlish man in the audience rose to criticize West Germany's Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer for talking to Nikita Khrushchev fortnight ago. "It's wrong to go hat in hand to aggressors," agreed another man. "The Russians pursue their ends with absolute brutality...
...Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...
...grass-roots political movement, so fervently supported that it survived ten years under a dictator's jack boot, last week smoothly propelled its leader into Venezuela's presidency. The party is the left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...