Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans are urged to unite [Oct. 20]. Unite behind what? Behind a President who responds to protest by intensifying his rhetoric of war? Behind a Government that can countenance an absurdity like McNamara's wall? Behind a war effort that is compromising all positive humanitarian ventures, both domestic and international, and that may cancel the very future of man himself? Behind a war that is destroying the very people we are "saving from Communism...
...most successful were the intricate lens constructions of Mary Bauermeister, the comic-book panels by Chicago's James Nutt, and the reconstruction of a 1964 Happening staged by Allan Kaprow, in which gallerygoers were invited to "make poetry, make news" by stapling random words together on the wall...
Angriest of all are the John Birchers, whose leader, Robert Welch, was eviscerated by Buckley in a series of articles. As a result, even though Buckley works are still carried in Birch bookshops, Buckley now receives much more hate mail from the far right than the far left. A wall of his office in Review's midtown Manhattan building is papered with nasty letters. "Buckley's articles cost the Birchers their respectability with conservatives," says Richard Nixon. "I couldn't have accomplished that. Liberals couldn't have, either...
...choir sang Holy, Holy, Holy, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller mounted the pulpit of his new $3,000,000 church in Garden Grove, Calif., and pushed a button. Two 25-ft.-high sections of the glass wall before him separated slowly, leaving only open air between the preacher and nearly 1,500 worshipers in 500 cars parked below him. Schuller's nondenominational Protestant parish, as its newspaper advertisements state, is a "walkin, drive-in" church-one of more than 70 now operating across the nation...
With almost all third-quarter earnings in, the summary was predictably subdued. The Wall Street Journal, in its periodic survey of profits, found that for 499 companies in such widely ranging activities as department stores and rubber making, profits were off 1.8% for the quarter; the New York Times found 475 companies up 1% for the quarter but down 3.6% for the first nine months of the year. The results were disappointing, but there was at least a silver lining. For the last quarter of the year and for next year as well, earnings are expected to rise again, thereby...