Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Little Natashas. Thrusting out bulging fists, Nikita crowed: "I have strong hands, and anyway, I love it!" He went happily down the receiving line, and began to warm up when he reached a group of children from the Soviet embassy, who showered him with flowers. To one little girl he boomed: "Your name is Natasha!" The surprised child stammered, "How did you know?" Laughed Nikita: "Every Russian girl is called Natasha...
...Joseph after the patron saint of their voyage, and the third was named Devil's Island because of the angry sea around it. But when the settlers christened the cluster as a whole, they became the authors of one of history's ironies: they called the group the Islands of Salvation...
John Sloan, who is usually tagged as a leading practitioner of the Ashcan School, was on vacation from realism in Picnic on the Ridge. On a glorious night near Santa Fe, a group of artists gathers round a picnic fire. Sloan himself is in profile, holding a coffee cup. His wife kneels just behind him. He summered in Santa Fe, but Sloan worked in Greenwich Village and became a sort of guardian spirit of its artists. Once, from the top of Washington Square Arch, he went so far as to proclaim the Village an independent republic...
Rule No. 4: Each partner must accept responsibility in humility and penitence for what his group has done, and is doing, to foster and perpetuate division. "Many Roman Catholics today are saying that the perpetuation of the divisions of Christendom is not simply due to Protestant wrongheadedness, but also due to the wrong kind of Catholic intransigence. Protestants should acknowledge that for centuries the Protestant tendency was to divide Christendom . . . and that if the ecumenical movement is revising this trend, it is still building on the wreckage of three centuries...
...listeners made the biggest audience ever drawn by Challenge, a bustling undergraduate group that aims to tingle Yalemen- with prickly ideas. Polemicist Rand delivered as advertised...