Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evaporated, and election campaigns have developed into bitter crusades to save the state's political soul. California now claims more inhabitants and wealth than any other state, and the incredible population influx has uprooted political traditions and machinery as ruthlessly as it has the landscape, Into the void have flowed numberless partisan cults, from the Birchism of range Country to the Negro Communism of the Los Angeles ghetto...
...earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters...
...last, the fog of traditionalism has begun to lift over London, and the artistic void has been filled by a platoon of young painters whose cool, bold work, while clearly influenced by U.S. pop art, is rooted in a distinctively English idiom that may well help Britannia rule a new wave. At the 1963 Paris Biennale, where French art bored even the French for a change, two of the young Londoners, Allen Jones and David Hockney, took the top prizes for painting and graphics from among 500 international entrants. Predicts Robertson: "The next great concentration of painters-after New York...
...canceled. Its defense business had fallen by $150 million since 1962, and its work force had dropped by 12,000 to 92,100. Boeing was undergoing an agony that afflicts many U.S. corporations in a day of selective defense cutbacks: the necessity of finding something to fill that aching void. The agony is still acute at Boeing, but the company has helped to soften some of it with a recent flurry of activity and determined planning for the future...
...afraid of them. Some of them, after all, went to prep school on scholarships; many of them are as bright and as willing to work as you; a few may even share your naive honesty. From others there is actually something to learn: that talking need not be a void and a sin; that grades and teachers' approval are not all-valuable; that polish can be pleasant. Do not be reluctant to learn from those who will teach you. As for the rest, forgive them, for they know not what they...