Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranging of race against race on the irrelevant basis of skin color. It is the father of hatred and the mother of violence. It is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." Martin Luther King announced that he would consider launching a wave of civil-disobedience demonstrations as an alternative to the violent tenets of the black-power movement, but he too warned that black power is "racism in reverse. The use of the phrase gives the feeling that Negroes can go it alone and that he doesn't need anybody but himself. We have...
Homer became one of the U.S.'s favorite artists; he still is. Last week exhibitions of his work opened at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., and Buffalo, N.Y.'s Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Despite his popularity, the artist quit New York City in 1883 for a wave-washed promontory in Maine called Prouts Neck. There the lifelong bachelor worked in a cliffside clapboard studio. Despite his old saltitude, he ordered his natty wardrobe from Brooks Brothers and purchased $40 worth of fine Jamaican rum a month from Boston's fancy S. S. Pierce for his hourly tots...
...Delikatessen in the original German sense of the word. Its sales of delicacies zu essen are soaring, as are those of practically every other fancy-food store in West Germany, on the strength of the latest craze to sweep the country: the Edelfresswelle, or exotic-food-devouring wave...
...Endless Summer. To surfboard enthusiasts, a new wave film is an epic celebrating the cool of a bronzed athlete atop a ten-foot slab of polyurethane foam, shooting through a tunnel of sea-green water formed by a breaker's curl. "The ultimate thing in surfing is to be covered up by the wave," says Bruce Brown, a blond, 28-year-old Californian who probably qualifies as the world's foremost exponent of pleasure before business. A Bergman of the boards, Brown makes his pleasures pay, and has pushed his income into a fun-filled six-figure bracket...
...audiences everywhere, surf-bored by the dry run of Hollywood's beach-party musicals, may relish the joys of Summer as it follows a pair of skillful California surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a three-month, round-the-world tour in search of the perfect wave...