Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Svoboda sat down with Brezh nev in the Kremlin, he discovered that the Russians wanted to talk only with him and the six men that had come with him from Prague. Svoboda demanded that Dubcek and Cernik be in cluded. When Brezhnev demurred, Svoboda threatened to break off all negotiations, and Brezhnev gave in. Svoboda then informed the Czechoslovaks in a message broadcast over Prague's free radio station that Dubcek "was at his side" in the Kremlin confrontation...
...satirical magazine. By the time his book Metamorphoses of the Day was published in 1828, Grandville's sketches, according to Thackeray, "brightened many a little room in the Pays Latin," and his studio had become a gathering place where Dumas, Balzac and Daumier gathered to talk and drink, while Grandville idly sketched caricatures as the conversation went...
...Southern California landscape, there has sprung up like desert flowers a new variety of artists. They talk of a new esthetic ("art as a symbolic medium is dead"), but these young Angelenos are basically united only by a determination to prove that creativity and innovation can flourish outside New York's hegemony. "They are just isolated, friendly, ambitious young people who share a fierce outlook," says James Monte, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Because they live in a backwater, they had to remake the whole scene...
...unseated, then reseated. Other wholly white delegations caught the spirit and issued challenges to their own credentials. Demonstrators, pretending to be a chain gang, beat themselves with belts and chanted: "Oh, it hurts so good, I don't want to do anything about it. But I like to talk about it." Lost in the con fusion was a motion to declare the whole congress unaccredited and send everyone home...
...personality-not to say his new eminence as a 50-year-old-Bernstein is entitled to be called American music's most ar ticulate elder statesman, a status that he will doubtless relish. Last week, before departing for Brussels, he paused at his Park Avenue duplex for a talk with TIME. Some of his observations...