Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With less than two months left before the end of the Great Crusade and the opening of the New Frontier, the Kennedy Administration last week began to take shape. Announcing four key appointments and nearing final decisions on several others, President-elect Kennedy, by the nature of his selections, indicated that his Administration will be generally moderate, eschewing the radicalism of the 1960 Democratic platform. Named by Kennedy to high Government posts: North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges as Secretary of Commerce; Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; Harvard Economist David...
...artist to be seduced by his own theories. The stage of the Loeb Drama Center was from more than an animated lecture platform. (The program calls it the Loeb Dramatic Drama Center, and I will allow that this production may be permitted that boast.) The theories provide the shape of the play and the style of the production, but what moved the audience to laughter, tears, and a tumultuous ovation is something far less easy to talk about than theories, something human...
With Zik & Co. sowing the seeds of rebellion in the South, the days of British rule in Nigeria were clearly numbered. But at conference after conference, the bemused British could only sit apart and smile as the Africans themselves delayed independence by interregional quibbling. Not until 1951 did the shape of the ultimate solution begin to appear: in return for accepting a federal legislature with real power, the North would get as many seats as the East and West combined...
...religious convictions" in the U.S., combined with the rise of materialism and "situational ethics." Explained the bishops: "Through a faulty concept of morality, Modern Man has come to imagine that sudden and drastic changes in situations change principles; that principles no longer control situations, but rather that situations shape principles...
...showing of California designs for 78 fashion editors from all over the U.S. Indeed, pants plain and fancy were being worn everywhere. The newest pants, stretch-pants adapted from European ski suits for the beach and living room, are so tight they have stretched the word slacks out of shape. One designer even labeled his stretch-pants creation "Scuba Reeds," so close are they to the rubber suit worn by skindivers...