Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief administrator in 1958. Instead of scouring the nation, the board stopped at the office of then Deputy Mayor Theobald. A former president of Queens College, he qualified as an educator, but more obviously as a politician. Also symptomatic was the mind and manner of Board President Charles Silver, a rich, onetime woolens salesman who never finished high school. A product of Tammany politics, he says: "If I run across someone that don't like me. I find out why." His performance, though devoted, seemed to consist mostly of being helplessly "shocked" at shabby classrooms...
...military coup for which he still blames CIA agents (he is certain that the U.S. disapproved of his studied neutralism, wanted a more firmly anti-Communist government). Says Sihanouk: "It is difficult to be a prince nowadays. The people believe that princes only build palaces and make gold and silver. But nowadays we have to work...
Graves need not cry any such thing; his fish are newly netted, gold and silver, rare...
...German Expressionist Emil Nolde, colors had a life of their own: "Weeping and laughing, hot and holy, like love songs and eroticism, like chants and magnificent chorales. Vibrating, they peal like silver bells and clang like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death." The "sweetness, often sugariness" of Renoir and Monet was not to his harsher taste, and he complained bitterly in the years before World War II that "their art, because it meets popular taste, is elected darling of the world...
...falls in love. Mixed marriages are illegal-no rabbi may marry a Jew to a non-Jew-and civil marriage (and divorce) does not exist. The result is a storm of resentment between Israel's secular and religious Jews, which is currently whistling around the ears of silver-thatched Acting Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim...