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Word: seemly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should level his sights on next. For Doerner, who stands 6 ft. 5½ in., the big issue is "the enormous conspiracy against tall people. I can't ride in the back seat of any car, I can't find clothes to fit, and shaving mirrors always seem to be fixed at the level of my belt. It's a plot to keep us unclad and bedraggled." For the life of him, Doerner can't understand why Nader doesn't do something about it. After all, he himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...openness of these canvases is clearly contrasted by a room of odd little boxes by Joseph Cornell. He places Victorian mantelpiece objects., medicine bottles, and birds behind glass or a wire, closing them into a three dimensional space, like a tomb. These boxes seem to be the only attempt to frame three dimensional space in the context of the flat vision of the new American painting, but even this sort of ? D picture is lifeless compared to the original space of the abstract works...

Author: By Cyntiha Saltzman, | Title: At the Met New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art until February 1. | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...agreement reached Friday after a six-hour work stoppage by black people demonstrates again that white institutions seem unable to respond to the needs of black people unless they are threatened," said an OBU press statement released Monday. "And it should teach a lesson to those who say they cannot understand the tactics of black people...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: OBU Negotiations Stalled Over Construction Issue | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

THINK OF HOW much it means to us to be going somewhere. All our ontological problems seem to dissolve when we are set into motion. To be going somewhere (literally) means in our world that you're either traveling in a car or better. Think of how much we need cars to set us free so we can each go to our own particular places...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: In the Streets Cars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...come here to tell about the genocide that's being carried out against the black people in this country. I don't want to have to talk semantics with you. I'm always afraid to talk at colleges where people seem to have more vocabulary than experience. We're talking about revolution and the survival of black people, and they're the same thing." It's really frightening to hear Messiah and feel that it may be the last time that...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Murder in America Panthers | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

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