Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many readers will at first assume. The villains in Silent Spring are chemical pesticides, against which Miss Carson has taken up her pen in alarm and anger, putting literary skill second to the task of frightening and arousing her readers. Published this week, the book has already raised a swirl of controversy about the danger to man and wildlife of those modern chemical compounds that have vastly increased agricultural production, banished some diseases, and kept at bay the most bothersome and harmful of insects and rodents...
...catch a mate or how to be sexy-we never use that word." By always being cheerful and never being sexy, the Churchill sisters pry glamour tips from Hollywood stars and pass them along in panting prose. ("The best-made plans of damsels and designers can swirl down the fashion drain if you aren't wearing the proper foundation under your basic dress.") They never miss a chance to add that the prettiest face will turn witchy, too, if the proper moral foundation isn't underneath. "We want our readers to think of themselves as beautiful gifts," Reba...
...attacks on the First Amendment by certain members of the Congress should arouse apprehension in every responsible American. Let's not tamper with our most precious possession amid the emotional swirl of a revival meeting...
...Joseph Papp wants to do is produce Shakespearean plays in Manhattan's Central Park and let people watch them for nothing. Such an ambition would seem to be about as controversial as sunshine, but Papp is forever warring against enormous odds, standing his ground in a swirl of controversy. The first big odd was former Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who insisted that Shakespearean audiences were eroding the city's soil. But Moses departed. Papp hung on, and last week Papp proudly presided over the dedication of a $400,000 amphitheater in the middle of Central Park...
Died. Paul Mulholland Butler, 56, shrewd, hot-tempered chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1954 to 1960, whose vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party and sharp criticism of his own party's leadership kept him in a constant swirl of controversy; of a heart attack; in Washington. A party wheelhorse in Indiana and Stevenson backer before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive...