Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative Morgenbladet called it a "slap in the face" to such responsible test ban proponents as Macmillan and Kennedy. The New York Herald Tribune held that the prize's esteem had slipped through association with "a placarding peacenik." As for Pauling, who got the news at his Big Sur, Calif., retreat, he remembered that the test ban had that morning gone into effect. "I thought," said he quietly, "that it was a nice day for the committee to make the announcement...
...Assure Peace. What made Paques a spy? It seems to have been a mixture of anti-Americanism and pacifism. The son of a hairdresser in Burgundy's Chalon-sur-Saone, Paques was educated at the elite Ecole Normale Superieure, where he majored in Italian. The outbreak of World War II took him to a broadcasting job for the Free French in North Africa. It was there that he is supposed to have developed a deep hatred of the U.S.; subsequently he blamed American policy for the loss of Algeria...
Timely Gift. Prince Edward County (pop. 14,121), a tobacco-growing farm land 70 miles southwest of Richmond, is increasingly illiterate. Four years ago, 3% of Negroes aged 5 to 22 could not read and write; now the rate has grown to 23% , according to a sur vey made by Michigan State University. Some poor whites are also unschooled: other whites pay tuition averaging $265 to send their children to "private" schools, including a handsome new high school in Farmville, the county seat. Most of Prince Edward's 1,725 Negro children get no formal education...
...abandoned chicken hatchery in Petaluma to the ballroom of San Francisco's Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Not until evening, when delegates to the Ameri can Symphony Orchestra League's convention began drifting into the room, were all the instruments ready. There stood the "Spoils of War," the "Sur rogate Kithara," the "Harmonic Canons I and II," the "Chromelodeon" -and there stood Harry Partch, quietly examining the tolerant smiles that have confronted him all his life. "This re minds me of an old Chinese proverb " Partch told his 400 listeners. " 'I agree...
...before the pseudonym of Le Corbusier appeared. Reflecting the Cubists' carefully controlled forms, precise edge and muted palette, this and other early works contrast markedly with the line ear, brilliantly colored Taureaux paintings of the 1950's. The most recent work displayed is an Aubusson tapestry "La licorne passe sur la men completed...