Word: russet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HISTORY. I came to Harvard in the fall of 1965. It was a crisp fall and quite russet, if I remember correctly. Two falls before, John Kennedy was shot dead in the middle of a Biology test. A girl came running into class hysterical to tell us. A few of us stayed to finish up our mollusca; then they let us out early. The summer before, I was a civil rights worker in Alabama. In those days, we believed that the government could solve all of our problems, and that we were the good guys and the government...
HISTORY. I came to Harvard in the fall of 1965. It was a crisp fall and quite russet, if I remember correctly. Two falls before, John Kennedy was shot dead in the middle of a Biology test. A girl came running into class hysterical to tell us. A few of us stayed to finish up our mollusca; then they let us out early. The summer before, I was a civil rights worker in Alabama. In those days, we believed that the government could solve all of our problems, and that we were the good guys and the government...
...mercy. It was cast into the gutter behind Lhasa's ravaged Tsukla-khang (Central Temple) amid burning sutras and tantric scriptures. The last 400 of Tibet's former 150,000 monks and lamas, who were kept on as window dressing, have now been stripped of their russet robes. All forms of religious life have been harshly suppressed. Red Guards relentlessly destroy household altars. Their favorite punishment for Tibetans caught practicing religious rites is to lock them in a room, tell them that "your God will supply you food," and abandon them...
...largely women-but, reflecting the fact that De Kooning has become a year-round resident of The Springs, near East Hampton on the tip of Long Island, they are now red-lipped exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen in Woman and Child, is allied...
...American Cyanamid. Businessman Don Lippincott is the angel behind the North Haven plant where Broken Obelisk was fabricated, invested $100,000 in it so that sculptors could produce works for civic groups and industry. U.S. Steel supplies Lippincott with its new Cor-Ten steel, which weathers to a russet brown, at a generous saving. Bethlehem Steel let Robert Murray use its San Pedro, lif., shipyard to build his Siton Duet...