Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overnight, the Algiers mutiny threatened to wreck the work of years. For unless he could decisively and quickly crush General Challe's revolt, Algerian independence was not De Gaulle's to promise or deliver...
Nkosi went on to charge that white South Africans have never accepted the fact that "for better or for worse, we are stuck with each other." For this reason, he claimed, the apartheid program calls for measures that would wreck the economy of the country...
...Chicago's Playboy Club, where businessmen from all parts of the U.S., including the Deep South, wallow in their shoulder-padded expense accounts, a neatly dressed young comedian talks about the race problem. "Segregation is not all bad," he says. "Have you ever heard of a wreck where the people on the back of the bus got hurt?" And, on sit-ins: "I sat at a lunch counter for nine months," he discloses. "When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted." The audience always laughs and usually applauds the performer, who is just getting started...
Posed, rhetorical scenes add to this poster effect, although nowhere does the rhetoric stop us from seeing: faces listen as a loudspeaker intones news of defeats, and statue mourners stand stiffly around the bodies of the dead in a train wreck...
...psychologist will deny," Millionaire Albert Coombs Barnes of Merion, Pa. once wrote in a momentary surge of mellowness, "that to enjoy most deeply the things we like, we must share them with others.'' Before he was killed in an automobile wreck in 1951, Barnes was already a legend for practicing exactly the opposite of what he preached. He owned a $100 million art collection, one of the finest in the world-and only a comparative handful of people ever...