Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While justifying the term "paranoid" for collective social actions (such as war) Storr dropped a statistic of heavy import. Notably, that within the period 1920-1945, 59 million beings have been killed in violent acts performed by other more or less "normal" human beings...
...which owns the largest collection of Duchamp's work, reveals that the conniving chess player had prepared one final gambit after all. On view is an entire room designed by Duchamp to accommodate a life-size environmental work on which he had secretly worked over a period of 20 years. He had even planned its installation at the museum, but the work's existence was known only to his wife and a few friends...
...fact that Tanner was able to make a career in a sphere that had known virtually no Negroes marked him as a man of exceptional drive. He was also more fortunate in family background and education than were most U.S. Negroes of the period. Born in 1859, the son of an African Methodist minister, the artist was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school. He became entranced with painting at the age of twelve when he saw a landscapist at work during an outing with his father in Fairmount Park...
...gift from God. We went tpo far in the Victorian period. We hushed it up. It should never have been suppressed. It's something that God gave us. We should talk about it. It shouldn't be in the back alleys in the dirt and trash. Young people are getting the wrong idea about sex. Within marriage it's the most wonderful of relationships. It's more than a propagation of the race. This is where I disagree with the Pope. Sex is more than just to produce children. Sex is for enjoyment within the confines...
...previous films this year (The Stalking Moon and MacKenna's Gold), Peck was saddled with period western costume. In The Chairman he is restored to mufti as John Hathaway, Nobel-prizewinning chemist, professor and all-round chump. Hathaway allows the combined intelligence forces to se crete an aspirin-sized transmitter in his head. He is blissfully unaware that the capsule also contains an explosive that can be triggered back at headquarters...