Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly Eduardo Chillida restrains the knotty nature of his wooden sculpture (see over page), and Antonio Saura's Brigitte Bardot is unsentimental. Says Saura, 36: "When I throw a blob of paint on my canvas, I am committing a rape. When I work I become a kind of monster...
A community of intellectual giants is not always sweetly harmonious, and over the years there has been less interchange of ideas than the Institute would have liked. The young mathematicians talk mainly to each other, probably because no one else can understand them. Older continental scholars frown at younger types...
The next problem was how to get to Puerto Rico. There is no airline service between Havana and San Juan, and the U.S. refused to let Fidel fly his athletes in aboard Cuban Ilyushins. Furthermore, warned Washington, any Cuban ship trying to land them in Puerto Rico would be seized...
In midtown Topeka, one of the few large structures left standing for blocks around was a ten-story insurance building audaciously emblazoned "A Refuge in Time of Storm"-yet it too was gutted, and may have to be razed. Buses at the city depot were piled one atop the other...
A 10-to 15-minute alarm, sounded over civil defense sirens and broadcast over radio and TV, unquestionably held down the death toll. Most people had time to scurry for refuge. Residents of the luxurious Huntington Park apartment complex found safety in the basement sauna room as the entire second...