Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sandy hair, freckles and blue-eyed charm, but he is neither naive nor gullible. He doggedly pursued both sides of the confused and rumor-fed struggle in Nigeria, checked federal claims in Lagos against observable fact in Biafra. He carefully outlined his own clear conclusions in a long four-part series for the London Times. Churchill had started with the impression that starvation was exaggerated, bombing of civilians a myth and a federal victory imminent. He wound up appalled at the extent of the Ibo people's suffering and amazed at their ability to hold off the better-armed...
When the Chicago police department began to discipline some of its patrol men for their part in the convention dis orders, Mabley took up the cops' cause in his well read daily column. A 30-year veteran of writing sports, television and freewheeling general commentary for Chicago newspapers, Mabley wrote...
...Part of the problem, explained Sociologist Bellah, derives from the traditional idea of belief. From the days of the church fathers, Christianity has tended to equate belief with intellectual assent to a given body of dogma. In Bellah's view, young people today see it rather as a commitment, part of a "quest for personal authenticity" that can take them into Black Power or the Peace Corps, hippiedom or Zen, drugs or sex. Some of these convictions hardly qualify as "beliefs" by any standard, and most of them are clearly not oriented toward God at all. Nonetheless, they...
More than a few museumgoers suspected that Nancy Graves' camels were part of an ingenious put-on, particularly since the Whitney was handing out extraordinarily pretentious brochures in which Miss Graves was quoted as proclaiming that "these camels do not find their organization in the real world but are the result of my experience. I cannot imagine or perceive a camel until it is completed." It sounded rather as though she were kidding the highbrows who insist that great art must be abstract. Since the abstract artist-by definition-depicts shapes for which no exact models exist...
...Egyptian diadem and forward to an Art Nouveau silver clip. But his heart was closest to the Renaissance and the lovingly fashioned objects it produced. A brilliantly enameled South German panel, dated circa 1530, that vividly portrays Christ being mocked on the road to Calvary, was either part of a pax, to be used by priests during the Mass, or else decorated a reliquary in a church or a monastery...