Word: wais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major exhibition is the best way to sort things out." To prepare the show, Lee and his curator, Wai-Kam Ho, who was born and educated in China, have traveled from Berlin to Tokyo, assembled objects from ten different countries. Yet the impact of the exhibit lies less in the individual pieces than in the way they unite to convey the spirit of a century...
...stability, for increasing investments, for institutions adapted to the modern world. But this government was not able to foresee, to cope. It was preoccupied with lasting rather than governing." Socialist Mitterrand boldly proposed to take over: "We are ready to take on the responsibilities of power." Crowed Communist Leader Wai-deck Rochet, who earlier had proposed a popular-front government with Red participation: "The Gaullist government...
...Over with Grover) and every dang one of his relations accompanies him on a instrument. There's Mom (Janet Blair), Dad (Buddy Ebsen) and eight kids so durn sweet you could eat 'em up, cep'n they'd cause diabetes. Wai, 'fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout me, 'bout us, 'bout we") and pronouncin' just about ev-erythin' on the fust syllable: Ree-pub-lican, convention...
Main reason: Yale, with the Wai-pole and Boswell papers in its library, has already become a center for English studies. Mellon's collection, valued at over $35 million and including more than 1,000 oils, 3,000 drawings and 4,000 rare books, would provide the ideal visual complement. To house the new gift, Mellon will pay for a new $12 million building to contain a gallery, libraries, lecture and seminar rooms, to be located across the street from the present Yale Art Gallery...
Ball Deferred. In Thailand, Humphrey inspected the ornate wats (temples) and expertly demonstrated the wai-the traditional Thai greeting that consists of a slight bow with palms pressed together at the chest. Visiting the impoverished, Red-infiltrated northeast of Thailand, Humphrey told Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman: "You have some fine country here. It looks like Minnesota." His main aim in Bangkok was to assure the Thai government that the Administration's new emphasis on social goals in Southeast Asia portended no diminution of the military effort to repel Communist aggression. The joint communique issued by Humphrey and Prime Minister...