Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie is that Baldwin has a fine intelligence capable of far subtler reflections on the color question and the universal fate of being human. The thaw in race relations permits Negroes to say how much they hate whites. The pity of it is that in the talky span of almost three hours, Baldwin says so little else worth saying...
JEWISH-Fifth Ave. at 92nd. Since his death in 1948, the influence of Arshile Gorky has been spreading far and wide. These 50 drawings, which have toured the U.S. and go to Europe next, span his career from the early portraits through an esthetic pilgrimage that visited Cézanne, Picasso, Miró and others, to the time when he found his imagination ripe and plucked images from memory, mind and dream with his own original and elusive lines. Through June...
...week, two weeks a month, the Supreme Court listens to lawyers argue their cases. For the lawyers, their rigorously controlled time before the bench can be a harrowing ordeal. They are allowed exactly one hour* by the clock in which to make their oral arguments-and during that brief span they must field the penetrating questions of the nine justices. "I made three arguments in every case," the late Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once wrote about his own appearance before the court as Solicitor General of the U.S. "First came the one that I had planned-logical, coherent, complete...
Burnt Fingers. The span from Bon Soir to Funny Girl took only 31 years. But she became well enough known through Wholesale, TV shows and nightclub dates to be asked to Washington to sing for President Kennedy. Her opening line to the President was: "You're a doll." When he inquired politely how long she had been singing, she said: "As long as you've been President...
...eightfold way is advanced quantum mechanics and beyond the understanding of the mathematically unanointed, but one of the predictions of the "way" was clear enough: a particle must exist that has a negative electric charge and a mass- of 1,676 million electron volts. It should have a life span of one ten-billionth of a second after it is formed, and then decay into a xi particle and a pi-meson...