Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reality merge in Texas. Past and present, there have always been those characters who are the stuff of legend. One saloonkeeper built a large stone mansion but insisted on an outside privy because "having one of those things in the house strikes me as un-Texan." The oil-rich Tom Slick was convinced that some men had the occult power to make sick cows well merely by thinking about them, hunted oil with "black-box" divining devices, financed expeditions (unsuccessful) to find the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas and the animal that left a legendary footprint in the woods...
Diverse Politics. Politically, Dallas is the city that spawns notions that Texas is chock-full of ultraconservatives. Statewide, the really radical right has little political power. But it does influence Dallas. Being newly rich, many of its millionaires worry constantly that their money may go just as easily as it came. Their fears are fed by the Dallas...
...socialization has spawned 15 government-operated enterprises; only one, the cement trust, is earning a clear profit. Air Ceylon consists of a single DC-3, employs dozens of executives to keep it flying. The national salt corporation was so mismanaged that although the island is washed by the salt-rich Indian Ocean, it has had to import salt from abroad. Even Ceylon's Communists are complaining. While carefully exempting Mrs. Bandaranaike from criticism ("the only man in the Cabinet"), Cambridge-educated, pro-Soviet Red Leader Pieter Keuneman lamented: "This government is not going any place...
...play is still a religious allegory centered on "the need to find someone or something that means God to you." But the character of Flora Goforth, the rich, raffish ex-Follies girl dying in her Italian mountaintop villa, has lost fire. When Hermione Baddeley played Flora, the dark power of death was as chilling as her nighttime screams. The second Mrs. Goforth, Tallulah Bankhead, seems to regard death as part of the servant problem, a petty retainer whom she can sack with a throaty rumble of brandy-voiced regality. Perhaps actressing is a better word for her performance than acting...
...keepers also found rich friends. Sir Joseph Duveen gave a new wing to house the Tate's vast, unique J.M.W. Turner collection; his son (eventually Lord Duveen of Millbank, titled for the medieval name of the Tate's site) added the museum's soaring sculpture hall. Formed five years ago, the Friends of the Tate Gallery, some 830 amateurs who banquet by candlelight three times a year amid the modern sculpture, have already given six Henry Moores, bringing the museum's total to 35, and have widened the U.S. collection with works by Louise Nevelson, Jasper...