Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many penetrating, and perhaps, irritating questions. Unfortunately, the answers to our questions did not dispel our anxiety about the membership clause. The Council asked if white Africans would be eligible for membership. The answer was no, because white Africans claim they are Europeans, and one must be able to trace his ancestry to a certain part of Africa to be eligible for membership. Thus Chinese, non Afro-Arabs, most Europeans, and many people in the Americas would be excluded, for example...
...burned with the intensity of a holocaust. Whereas he once demol ished individuals with a few lines, he now loaded his palette with the colors of doom. Memories of My Mother got its title after it was finished, when Grosz learned that his mother had disappeared without a trace in a bombing raid on Germany. What Grosz was painting was not the end of one life but of life itself...
...Figueres carried many new ideas. "I wanted to be a pioneer, so I went to the country, set up a farm, and read by candlelight for seven years." "The Struggle Without End," as he called his plantation, quickly became a model of successful and enlightened management. Not without a trace of pride he explains, "We introduced advanced social measures long before social legislation demanded them...
Durant and his wife Ariel, who has assisted with research on all the volumes, will continue to trace what Durant calls "the faltering trajectory of mankind" through Volumes IX and X -The Age of Voltaire in 1965, and Rousseau and Revolution in 1968. Provided, says Will Durant dryly, that "the Great Powers do not destroy our subject before it destroys...
Miming, dancing, and singing the lovely old songs of The Great War, Miss Littlewood's actors lightly trace its course. National leaders disclaim any thought of war and then whip out their offensive plans--just in case. Allied generals hold each other in highest contempt, refusing to speak the other's language--until they receive medals. And the audience remembers that "Its a Long Way to Tipperary." But in the background a neon sign chronicles the facts: ALLIES DEFEATED--150,000 CASUALTIES, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT--30,000 DEAD IN THE TRENCHES...