Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President on the quarantine and brilliantly developed the U.S. position at the United Nations." But it did not deny the Bartlett-Alsop charges. On the same day, Stevenson was in Washington to attend an NSC Executive Committee meeting (where, like other top Cuba advisers, he received from Kennedy a silver calendar with the 13 crucial October days deeply etched). After the session, Stevenson was ushered into Kennedy's office, assured that the President had had nothing to do with the Post article...
...when President Kennedy sent him in as Associate Supreme Court Justice in 1962. In recognition of White's unsurpassed career as athlete and jurist, the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame gave him its fifth annual Gold Medal Award. Another honor: a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 1962 Silver All-America Award, calling him "the greatest athlete of his time...
...says. "I have to have something, like a child, that I can feel.'' When he first turned to sculpture, he worked in wood; it was not until he was past 50 that he found the materials that he now prefers-sheets of copper, bronze or silver, which he bends, hammers and brazes to enclose his forms. His skill is impressive, but even more so is the splendid chaos of his ideas, a mixture of corn and stabbing truth that often is close to surrealism. He has done a beautiful silver sculpture of an old lady's hand...
...moving at last to action, the faculty has a powerful weapon: statewide fear that Ole Miss may yet lose accreditation when the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools meets at the end of this month. "If one teacher is fired for his views now," says History Professor Silver, "it will be curtains for the university." The faculty is thus free at last to make Ole Miss hew to law and learning. By all evidence, most professors are now solidly behind one colleague's summation: "The powers of darkness abound. It's up to us to work...
Technically, the film is not impressive. The views of the Po Valley, wide and still and parqueted with poplars, silver the screen like scenes from the hand of Ruisdael; but the script is often awkward and the acting consistently crude. Yet the picture is a moving experience. Il Grido means The Cry, and the cry comes from the heart. With it, Antonioni opens the aorta of his talent and releases the cold grey mainstream of his feeling, the chilling theme of all his art: that modern man has somehow lost the meaning of his life, that God alone knows when...