Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ICEM has all but cleared out the displaced persons camps, besides handling great surges of Iron Curtain escapees such as occurred after the Hungarian revolt. In the words of its officials, it has become ''the biggest travel agency on earth...
...Alec Guinness as Lawrence of Arabia. A complex, 16-scene production, the play reaches brilliantly, perhaps too slickly, into its legendary hero's mind, illuminating but never completely resolving the essential enigma: Was Lawrence the spectacular hero who inspired and led the Arabs in their World War I revolt against the Turks, or was he a lying, unstable charlatan...
Foremost among the problems Nehru had in mind was the recent near-revolt of South Africa's blacks against apartheid. With Nigeria and Sierra Leone slated for early independence, this may be the last Commonwealth meeting at which there are as many white Prime Ministers as colored. The leaders of the Commonwealth's Asian and African nations, resplendent in achkans and bright-colored togas, had come to London determined to register their distaste for apartheid. "The eyes of the world are on the conference," said Ghana's Nkrumah. "I will not be silent on the issue...
...resumed their raucous ways and the noisy, bright-lit bars were awash with tipsy revelers and eager ladies of the evening. In fact, except for a few damaged buildings and the soldiers guarding the National Assembly, there were no outward signs at all of Korea's fortnight of revolt...
...point: put your money where it shows. Such cathedrals of pleasure as the Eden Roc, Americana and Fontainebleau (pronounced Fountain Blue) hotels give abundant evidence that Lapidus is a disciple of excess. With freewheeling showmanship, he is trying to develop an "alphabet of ornament" that will provoke an emotional revolt against the austerity of modern architecture. In the midway atmosphere of Miami Beach and other resort areas, Lapidus, 57, finds the perfect outlet for the "new sensuality" expressed in his terrazzoed palazzos. "They call my hotels corn," he says proudly, "but they're better than corn. They make people...