Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mellowed Nixon. Like many of the commentators on the left this year, Mailer is much more charitable toward the Republican Convention than the Democratic. He was surprised himself at his diminished hatred for Nixon. The man still suffered from slickness. "His ability to slide off the question and return with an answer is as implicit in the work of his jaws as the ability to bite a piece of meat." Yet, adds Mailer, adversity seems to have mellowed, even deepened him. "The new Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete...
Flaming Boosters. What emotion did he seek to convey? That question he usually begged with a grin. In essence, Kline and his fellows were creating a new artistic language, through the push and pull of the images and the very strokes of the brush, to express emotions that could not be put into words. But, as Kline found himself becoming a success, the task became more difficult. He could now afford linen, instead of cotton, canvas and real artist's pigments, but these, he found, produced a slickness that belied his deliberate crudeness. His compositions became larger and more...
...musical doubting and questioning does not mean that Ruggles lacks a ready supply of answers when he sits chatting with visitors in the living room or over the cracker barrel at the country store. Salty and profane as a whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this...
...head of Citroën, France's second biggest automaker. Climaxing months of secret negotiations, Bercot revealed plans last week for a union of his ailing company with Fiat, the Italian automaker that ranks fourth in the world, behind only the U.S. Big Three. "It is not a question of Citroën's troubles," Bercot said, "but the problem of the entire European automobile industry." That problem, as the French are keenly aware, is competition from U.S. automakers in Europe...
...fact-sheet raises the question of security clearance for ROTC courses, this time in connection with the Air Force program. Last spring, Harvard's Navy ROTC unit ceased teaching classified material in two courses, thus opening these courses to non-ROTC students without a security clearance after a Harvard faculty committee requested that it do so. The HUC fact sheet states that although no classified material is included in Air Force ROTC courses, these courses are informally closed to non-ROTC students for security reasons...