Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweeping changes were taking place in the country. A civil war had been fought and won, and then lost by the North: the American Industrial Revolution was just shifting into high gear-and with it the beginnings of American imperialism: and the country was caught in a period of public venality unequalled in its history before or since. But DuBois noticed none of this. He was even unaware of his race and did not connect certain slights he suffered with the color of his skin until years afterward...
Throghout the remainder of the first period Harvard dominated play and a breakthrough seemed inevitable. Finally halfback John Gordon slipped a pass through to Gomez. The junior star shot the ball off a fullback's leg and the screened goalie could not compensate for the deflection in time...
...troublemaker when he served as the nation's first Prime Minister between 1960 and 1964, largely because of his efforts to obtain sovereignty over those parts of northern Kenya and eastern Ethiopia roamed by Somali nomads. His domestic policies, however, had produced little unrest. After a three-year period out of office, he was elected President in 1967. He chose as his Prime Minister Mohammed Haji Ibrahim Egal, 41, who promptly proceeded to end the border frictions...
...hard to see why he left out such major artists as Naum Gabo, Louise Nevelson, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, William Baziotes, Richard Lindner, Larry Rivers, Marisol and Lee Bontecou. Even so, with 406 works by 43 artists, Geldzahler has assembled the most exhaustive survey ever of the period...
...weight among collectors and dealers. Henry enjoys that kind of power. But in the end, he says, it is the show that counts. "For those people who are already familiar with the work," he muses, "I hope that seeing it all together will open scholarly dialogues about what the period will really stand for. For those who are unfamiliar with it, I hope it will be beautiful enough to open their eyes...