Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story of Fanny Brice is the fairytale dream of an unprepossessing kid who rose from the ghetto to the Follies on a powerful amalgam of brass and tal ent. Barbra's marked resemblance to Fanny is more than nasal. She is the flip side of Cinderella-the homely gir who made it. Conceivably, it could happen to every unendowed citizen in America. For her fans, that is enough...
...Your cover article on the commercial [July 12] was an exquisite amalgam of love, truth, beauty, corn and a little salt...
...were intended originally as toys, or as decoration. They are important, says Girard because "toys are a natural, generic expression of a people. They reflect the whole of its life in miniature." Even trivial trinkets, Girard feels, reflect a potent folk tradition derived from Latin America's unique amalgam of cultures...
...loosely formed amalgam of some 35,000 young people-barely 6,000 of whom pay national dues-the far-left S.D.S. boasts chapters on at least 250 campuses. Opposed to "imperialism" (whatever that means these days), racism and oppression, S.D.S. finds the American university guilty of all three. The organization got its start at the University of Michigan as a student offshoot of the League for Industrial Democracy, a socialist trade-unionist group. In 1962, following S.D.S.'s first national convention at Port Huron, Mich., Tom Hayden, a former editor of the Michigan Daily, drafted the 30,000-word...
...been chary about committing his talents to a single position. Instead, he has accepted jobs as a consultant to the Carnegie Corporation (of which he was president before becoming HEW Secretary in 1965), as a director of Time Inc., and as chairman of the national Urban Coalition, an amalgam of civic leaders dedicated to combating the ills of the cities. Last week the onetime college psychology instructor took on a university assignment as well. Starting next fall, he will be a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, commuting from Washington to Cambridge to consult with faculty members...