Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being touched in terms of his interaciton with corporate or governmental clients whom he helps to make decisions which have rather little to do with formal legal matters, and a fair amount to do with the fact that he is a privileged and trusted, quick and resourceful, semi-outsider...
...that Richard Smith, 35, an Englishman who divides his time between New York and London, won the $10,000 grand prize. His particular bag is the shaped canvas, in which the aluminum frame is turned up at one corner to give the stretched canvas the smooth curve of a semi-bas-relief. There are six such squares of canvas, each painted in a light, bright acrylic color. The series bears the Beatlesque title, A Whole Year and Half Day, and seven of the nine critics on the international jury voted for it. Explained one, Mexico's Ida Rodriguez...
...Details. It is on this point that Letters to a Friend stumbles, falls, and exposes Svetlana's limitations as a chronicler. Infinitely valuable as semi-history and a source for Stalin biographers, the book really dominates its reader as a psychological study of Svetlana Alliluyeva. Torn by unresolved feelings, she is divided between apologizing for Stalin and indicting him. "I spend all my time thinking over what's happened and trying to make sense of it all. It's the kind of thing that can drive you out of your mind." She selects details oddly, noting explicitly...
Wright calls for "rehabilitation and not relief." He rejects the noblesse oblige of an aristocracy-whether of race or of class--that operates within a system of "semi-immutable power relationships." He calls instead for action to bring human life to its full development, regardless of changes in power relationships which this will involve. "Human relationships," says Wright, "are not to be conceived in static terms...
...industry is currently adopting the argument that repeal of ASP would damage the industry and cause large-scale job cuts among semi-skilled workers. According to the industry these people are often Negroes and Puerto Ricans, who would have great difficulty finding other jobs with similar pay. The industry often points out that Newark and New Jersey would be particularly threatened...