Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While assessing the reactions to the tragic assassination of President Kennedy, you stated, "Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of 'dark corners in the U.S.; and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
...Negro," said a Negro in Toronto. Many others insisted on reading into the event their own political passions. Statesmen in Africa, Asia and elsewhere insisted that the deed must have been done by a racist, and that Kennedy was a martyr like Lincoln or Gandhi. And Nehru could not resist remarking that the murder gave evidence of "dark corners in the U.S., and this great tragedy is a slap for the concept of democracy...
...Ricci did not, of course, learn all he knew in Dalmatia. Uncle Sebastiano taught him, and he was much swayed by Genoese oils filled with fantastic orgies of intertwined trees. A talented stage designer, he traveled to London to design sets for the Italian opera there. (He could not resist turning out a few wicked caricatures of English operatic rehearsals, so satirical that they were long thought to be by Hogarth.) He then began painting imaginary ruins, mingling fancy with the realistic landscapes. And this foretaste of rococo and romanticism created a whole new genre of painting, called caprices, that...
...advocates and opponents of slavery decided that only radical convictions could be honest and effective--this is the judment of Two Roads. The present generation must decide whether a century has made this decision obsolete--whether opponents can now be trusted enough to compromise. Must segregationists resist all civil rights reforms, and integrationists demand immediate broad reforms, to win even parts of their programs? Are the two camps really irreconcilable, as people thought they were...
...conversation at a reception turned to food, he indicated that he was wor ried about a common executive problem. "I weighed myself today," he confided, "and I weighed 96 kilos (212 Ibs.). But I used to weigh 97, so things are not so bad." Characteristically, he could not resist a little needling. "We want you to be fat," he said, "because that's unhealthy. We shall become thin, and that's good for us, anyway...