Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Electronic racket raisers, says the colonel, "will project high-intensity, variable-pitch sounds, blatting, shrieking noises, etc., in such volume that they will be almost intolerable to the human ear." Another promising device: "A revolving, car-roof-mounted, flashing spotlight of such brilliance that it will temporarily affect the vision of rioters...
...SMOKE. "Under favorable wind conditions," says the colonel, "demonstrations can be inundated with white, nontoxic, nonstaining, obscuring smoke. The effect is both tactical and psychological. Vision is obscured, sense of direction is lost, and mob unity is destroyed. These advantages are coupled with a harmless throat irritation that induces coughing and causes the individuals affected to leave the area with little desire to return...
...long range of two races' memories or one nation's vision, Faulker's difficult proposal is the only one that works. He desperately urged on his fellow Southerners-and himself-a change of heart. He never, on the evidence, quite managed that change himself. But if he left a message and a legacy, it was to urge upon his fellow Southerners and the nation the imperative necessity for that change...
Born & Bred. Halfway through the writing of his third novel, Sartor is, he had a vision: "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. I created a cosmos of my own." He called it Yoknapatawpha County and set it down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner...
...began in 1956, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art sent abroad a show that introduced Pollock, De Kooning, Kline and abstract expressionism to England and the Continent. European critics at once recognized that the postwar New York school had the innovative strength, technical skill and independent-minded vision to go its own way without regard for the school of Paris-which, since the cubism, surrealism and dadaism of the first quarter of the 20th century, has contributed nothing conspicuously...