Word: greys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Russia, where his pictures were plastered on exhibition walls and where he would soon oust both Dwight Eisenhower and Mark Twain as the best-known American. Bit by bit, a more complete story of his ill-fated U-2 jet flight to Sverdlovsk emerged from the grim, grey silence of international espionage...
...above Communist territory, it entered into an area of international law as unexplored and uncertain as outer space itself. Says International Lawyer and Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau of the University of Chicago: "There are no legal precedents for such flights." The U.S. now finds itself in a grey area between war and peace, in a time when old codes are frequently stretched or violated. In the past cold-war decade. Soviet or Red Chinese combat planes have attacked and gunned down half a dozen U.S. patrol planes, several of them well outside Communist borders. The cost: at least...
...long as Germany is divided, it will be a flash point for war. And, as a matter of conscience, the West feels strongly that East Germany's 17 million oppressed people must not be abandoned. Reunification is their last, best hope of freedom from Communism's grey tyranny, and the West, however long a decision might be postponed, cannot and will not give up the. effort...
...Chelyan a Baptist minister distributed to his congregation copies of a phony Knights of Columbus oath,* an ancient political artifact. Kennedy made some converts. After hearing a Kennedy speech in Oceana, Mrs. Wanda Grey, a Baptist, had a change of heart: "I was surprised at myself. I thought I had my mind all made up. Then I heard him, and I decided being Catholic...
Alcestis was one more contribution to the Graham cycle of Greek drama that already includes Night Journey (Jocasta), Cave of the Heart (Medea) and Clytemnestra. Around the central props-a massive, grey stone wheel and tower-the 27-minute work unfolded in episodes of tortured simplicity. Alcestis. danced by Martha Graham, writhes on a ramp with King Admetus in a series of languorous embraces; Thanatos (Death) struggles with Alcestis in a sinuously elegant dance; the hand of Hercules, bearing a single white lily, is suddenly thrust from the center of the wheel, symbolizing the rebirth of life...