Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plight of the hospital workers was an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. It gave them a chance to make their conception of the ideal labor union a reality. In addition, since most of the workers at Jewish Memorial are Roxbury Negroes, the union would provide them a good base for community organizing in the ghetto...
Increasing Violence. The stone may actually have been the best thing to happen to the Congress Party in months. The party has been under attack as never before, partly because its own internal squabbles have emboldened its opponents and partly because, as the dominant force in Indian politics for 20 years, it is blamed for the country's food shortages and economic stagnation. The campaign has been marked by increasing violence. At nearly 80 political rallies, most of them Congress Party affairs, speakers have been heckled and shouted down. But the stone that hit Indira caused a surge...
...rhythms, a grand flair for colors and a gay wild way with a camera that leaves the eye spinning. In Lights, a 5½-minute study of Manhattan after dark, she slashes at her subject with a camera as an action painter slashes at his canvas, and the great stone city breaks up into a wriggling calligraphy of flash and filigree...
...start. As an Apollo engineer said: "The first article from the factory cannot come out without birth pains." The spacecraft gave repeated trouble. The nozzle of its big engine shattered during one test. The heat shield of the command module split wide open and the ship sank like a stone when it was dropped at high speed into a water tank. Certain kinds of fuel caused ruptures in attitude-control fuel tanks. The cooling system failed, causing a two-month delay for redesign. But all the bugs were eventually ironed out, as far as the experts knew, after arduous testing...
...five smooth stones of the title are the ones that David carried into battle against Goliath; using roughly 82,000 cliched words per stone, the author indulges in literary overkill, with her sling relentlessly aimed at the bestseller lists. Her hero is a young, hypersensitive Southern Negro named David, a genius, jazz virtuoso and cripple, who makes his way from a dresser-drawer crib in New Orleans to Harvard and Oxford, and back to the civil rights battlegrounds of the South. Her white characters, including a college cutup named Sudsy Sutherland and a heavy called OP Clete, seem to derive...