Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a girl who helped him on his German when he caught sight of his Widener Library vision. When the next dance began, he wound through the couples looking for her, to cut in on her, but when he drew near her, he turned and walked over to the wall, where he caught his breath and realized he was frightened." After that, "when he walked through the Yard on his way to classes; his eyes revolved on all the walks in the hope of seeing...
Complete Credentials. Of the two, the one with the more nearly complete set of national credentials is the Wall Street Journal (circ. 774,000). Although the Journal is not a daily of general coverage but a newspaper for businessmen, its four regional editions (Pacific, Eastern, Midwest, Southwest) already give it national distribution. On the Journal's broad distribution base-subscribers in all but a handful of the nation's 3,072 counties-the paper is now preparing to publish a national weekly newspaper of general interest...
With that, it was all over except for the formalities: duly the Grand National Assembly elected Gursel as the Second Republic's new President. The only other announced candidate for the presidency, Ali Fuat Basgil of the pro-Menderes Justice Party, saw the handwriting on the wall, hastily withdrew not only from the race but from Ankara itself. The final vote for Gursel: 433 out of a possible...
...Beltran, 64, a descendant of the Spanish conquistadors, stopped off in the ancient Inca city of Cuzc0,11,200 ft. up in the Andes. A howling, Communist-led mob of Indian peasants, descendants of the defeated Incas, greeted him with a barrage of rocks and cries of "To the wall!" Few places in Latin America know a wider chasm between rich and poor, between the white aristocracy and the Indian masses, who, 400 years after the conquest, still live in misery. Though Beltran is an alert and enlightened statesman, his efforts to bring social and economic reform to his country...
...headaches, and there's nothing I can do about it"), Magritte lives in a comfortable unbohemian house near Brussels, quietly damning a good deal of what other artists are doing. He has little use for the "brutalists" like Jean Dubuffet. "I find many things beautiful, such as old walls with spots on them," he says. "But if you tell me a wall with its spots is a painting, I say you're wrong." Nor does he think much of action painting: "It's action, not painting." His own work is part fairy tale, part ghost story...