Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tougher than most of Christo's projects. First, permission to wrap the area was obtained from the Prince Henry Hospital, which owns the land and will benefit from the proceeds. Then a task force of 60 volunteers labored for nearly a month over treacherous 80-ft. cliffs. They knotted and secured ropes, sewed the fabric together, and operated the 20 ramset guns used to fire staples into the rock face. The sound of the pounding surf below barred direct communication among the workers, so two-way radios were used. Midway through the project, a gale-force wind ripped...
Israel Horovitz's Morning opens the evening of one-act plays with promises of (perhaps) a new day, a new world. In the midst of Harlem, a black family-a little like good old Kingtish and Sapphire, only a hellever lot tougher-have just popped a few pills that turn them white. Overnight. But as should be expected, devolving into a white man isn't that simple a proposition. In effect the play becomes a roller coaster excursion through a series of assumed racial identities (along with their accompanying crises) until. finally. Horovitz's white blacks decide to stick with...
Half of the 2,000,000 Mexicans in Southern California no longer call themselves Mexican Americans. They use the tougher name Chicanos, and they are renaming their political organization, United Mexican-American Students, MECHA?which means fuse. They are getting...
Disquieting Quiet. Juilliard has always been known for looking at music with a coldly practical eye. "We want only the really great talents coming to the school," says President Peter Mennin. "Entrance exams will be tougher, the curriculum will be tightened. We're sending students out into a hard professional life...
...Nixon Administration, which seems determined to prove itself tougher on antitrust policy than the Democrats were, has lost an important round in its fight against corporate bigness. Last week a federal court refused to stop International Telephone & Telegraph, the largest conglomerate, from going ahead with one of the biggest mergers in U.S. history-the acquisition of Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The combination would raise ITT's assets by 50%, to more than $6 billion...