Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extent of violence and wildly inflated estimates of damage. Of 164 disorders last year, eight turned out to be "major," 33 were "serious," and the rest were not normally worthy of attention "had the nation not been sensitized by the more serious outbreaks." Early damage estimates in Detroit ran as high as $500 million; the actual total has since dropped to $45 million...
...surprising amount of the new critical spirit looks toward the U.S. as the best instrument and prod for government reform (see box). Only a month or so ago, a South Vietnamese who publicly suggested U.S. interference in the government ran the risk of being charged with "licking the American boots." Now the crisis has convinced many Saigon politicians of the need for more, rather than less, U.S. direction and firmness in guiding the government to reform and action...
...ponders some escape. After all, Sherwood Anderson was 36 when he quit running an Ohio paint factory and started writing fiction. Gauguin was a sometime Parisian broker of 43 when he ran off to paint and wench in Tahiti. Should he dye his hair, have an affair, get divorced, quit his job? But how can he sacrifice that pension, that company-paid insurance? What girl wants him? What new employer...
...manager, treasurer, director and conductor of the ten-day Easter Music Festival at Salzburg, Herbert von Karajan, 59, takes on the most exhausting one-man musical spectacular since Richard Wagner ran Bayreuth. For the past month, however, the Austrian-born maestro has been flat on his back in hospitals in Munich and Paris, suffering first from flu, which developed into double pneumonia, and more recently from painful and incapacitating nerve inflammations in both legs. Though Von Karajan's recuperative powers are supposed to be second only to those of Lazarus, even his doctors are wondering whether he will...
...early period"). Sleep is shot, with a camera that never moves, of one person sleeping. It is eight hours long. When Warhol was once asked how he could stand to film such inaction for so long, he replied he couldn't. He shot twenty minutes and then ran it over and over until eight hours were...