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...departing from what had been the custom, included illustrations showing Negro parents and babies. Several Southern Congressmen quickly canceled orders for the integrated edition. Explained Georgia's Representative John W. Davis: "I'm just afraid that in view of the current state of high feelings it might rub a few nerves the wrong...
...sense of tradition and loyalty that was so important in directing him toward poetry in the first place, now impelled him to put his art at the service of his country. "It was our duty to rub off these dirty marks from our banner and to restore the original meaning to our revolutionary concepts," he declares...
...Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince, rub an old battle scar on his forehead and say: "My head hurts." Then he usually takes some pills, and a bodyguard treats his shoulder with Vicks ointment...
...Graveyard of Presidents." Montana's higher-education handicaps exemplify those of its neighbor states: low population and resources, absence of any deep tradition of the university as a trafficker in ideas rather than simply producer of engineers or lawyers. But the particular rub is the failure to recognize that the essence of organizing human ventures, whether colleges or corporations, is to get a good man to run the show, set general guidelines, give him authority and time, and then let him stand or fall. Newburn is the university's seventh leader in 20 years, and professors everywhere call...
Raymond Parker's forms float like the volatile gasbags of a dirigible, separated by fractions of space, as if waiting to rub together in an explosive friction. Paul Brach sticks to an unseductive steely blue surface in which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...