Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riot season more or less ended. During the summer there have been no disorders as big or bad as the holocausts that gutted Watts, Newark or Detroit in previous years. The U.S. had 286 racial disturbances from May through the end of August, but most were relatively small and short. Though practically any city could still blow, the summer of 1968 now ranks as the most tranquil since...
...aviators. Wearing the borrowed caps of the flyers, the girls pretended, between pinches and giggles, that they were learning how to operate the machine. Nearby, young Czechoslovak boys sprawled in the grass with Soviet enlisted men, examining their submachine guns and playing a sort of mumblety-peg with the short Soviet bayonets. As if to demonstrate their amiable nature, the Soviets put on a show by the Red Army Ensemble, complete with singers and a bosomy Russian blonde, in Prague's Esplanade playground. The Czechoslovaks pointedly stayed away...
...return the week before from three days of negotiations in Moscow, Party First Secretary Alexander Dubċek told the Czechoslovak people that their only sensible alternative was to submit to the Soviet will. Then, setting the example, he began the humiliating task of dismantling Czechoslovakia's short-lived freedom and reforms...
...predictions on trends already discernible. He believes that technology will help to bring about the new accent on the individual needs of students. National admissions centers will match students by computer with the college that best suits their interests, allow them to move freely from campus to campus. Short-range jets will enable professors to serve consortia of small colleges that agree to share faculty and facilities...
...spinster has always been a haunting and rather mysterious figure: no man quite knows her. Victorian writers characterized her as a religious zealot or an anxious nanny. In the post-analytical theater, Playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams toss her about like a sex bomb on a short fuse -guaranteed to explode somewhere in the second act. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Spinster and Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God show the bomb defused. Both novels capture the faded maiden in dignity and pathos. She is as obsolete as an antimacassar-and as real as the reader...