Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into teaching or using their valuable talents in various civil libertarian causes. For many, the new lure of the law is a career devoted to tackling the country's social problems, not protecting private clients. Last year only one-quarter of the editors of the Harvard Law Review went directly into private practice; only 10% plan to do so this year. Whether the upped salaries will change many minds remains to be seen. Says one third-year man who still plans to become a law professor: "I am just not going to be bought at this price...
...promised 5,000 demonstrators outside the Garden. Only about 500 showed up-to spend the evening roaming around in little knots, pushing and shouting at 400 police. During the melee, ten Negro athletes, including Indoor World Record Long Jumper Bob Beamon, entered the Garden, performed in their events, and went quickly home...
...more difficult time finding his own style than did his fellow refugees from Russian ghetto life, who once they had arrived in Paris, turned toward cubism, like Jacques Lipchitz, or, like Chagall, romanticized the shtetl folklore with fiddlers on the roof. At the time that Lithuanian-born Soutine went to Ceret, he was still in his 20s, all but unknown. There he embarked on a series of extraordinarily dislocated mountain views, with houses and trees piled like limp wads of anthropomorphic soil...
...heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. Mae was only 16 when her auburn-haired beauty caught. Griffith's eye and he signed her to a contract at $3 a day. She moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose. In the 1920s, she was one of Sam Goldwyn's original Goldwyn Girls, earning $250,000 a year -but then came the talkies...
...Huston pictured it as a pregnant sampan. Now, an Israeli with sound credentials has produced perhaps the most logical rendition of Noah's ark to date. Last week in Jerusalem's Hechal Shlomo (Solomon's Palace), the seat of Israel's Chief Rabbinate, the model went on display-and it looked totally different from earlier versions...