Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bedtime Reading. By contrast with the P.P.P.'s racist election propaganda, Burnham's campaign focused on such needs as public works projects and agricultural reform. A silk-smooth speaker and one of his country's top criminal attorneys, Burnham earned a law degree with honors at London University, reads himself to sleep in English ("political novels"), French (Lamartine, Corneille), or Latin (Cicero, Tacitus, Catullus). Originally a co-founder of Jagan's P.P.P., Burnham soon soured on Cheddi's Marxist rantings and, fired by his own ambition, set up the anti-Communist P.N.C...
...next best event for the Cadets may be the mile relay. The Cadets have three-fourths of a 3:21 quartet back from last year, and Crimson coach Bill McCurdy has still not welded four of his fine sprinters into a smooth relay team...
Citing Kerr's book, Uses of the University, Savio asserted that the University President views students as the "raw material" who are fed into the knowledge factory, "where all the rough edges are taken off and smooth, slick products come...
Anyone who has followed the Bob by Baker case even vaguely knows of charges of a political payoff to help finance the 1960 presidential campaign and of reports that Baker used shapely party girls to help smooth the way for his shady deals. Last week the fact that there was indeed a lot of loose change floating around -$35,000, to be exact-was confirmed beyond a doubt, to whatever purpose it may have been used. And the Senate Rules Committee, reopening its hearings into the Baker affair, also began pinning down some of that party-girl talk...
There is proof, too, at the Whitney show that older sculptors are still going strong. Lipchitz looks more curvy than cubist in his bronze Lesson of a Disaster, a tripod sprouting flames. Noguchi's smooth, pierced-granite Black Sun continues to exploit Oriental eclecticism in graceful abstraction. But the average age of the Whitney's choices is 43. Even younger sculptors are experimenting with new approaches to the object. Some may make sculpture from...