Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight years Naga nationalists fought an inconclusive war with their Indian masters before agreeing to a cease-fire in 1964. That uneasy truce has recently been renewed for shorter periods. The current cease-fire expires on Oct. 1, and this time, thanks to the new factor of Chinese support, there may be no extension...
...artists" is to make expressive art objects of themselves. They are human happenings, and as such may spell the death of art rather than its birth. For them, durability seems like death. Their credo is not "Life is short. Art is long" but "Life is short. Art is shorter." Sibylline Utterances. To move from the coffeehouses to an Old Vic revival of The Three Sisters is like catapulting through time. The production is exquisitely mounted, the acting impeccable. Joan Plowright makes Masha a woman of neurotically vulnerable ardor, and as her lover Vershinin, Robert Stephens is a colonel of spineless...
...allowed to clock in at their jobs at noon, when their work day usually begins, they were ordered to take turns reporting to army garrisons for four hours a day of marching. Some also got trips to the army barber and showed up for their regular jobs with considerably shorter hair. Pacheco's point was to "militarize" the clerks, a status that could make their next strike tantamount to desertion, or at the very least cost them their treasured pension rights. They were not among last week's strikers...
...have had to pay no taxes when they bought skirts. Aware that it is thus losing pounds and pounds of tax money, the government last week was searching for a way to hem in the revenue. It may change the regulations so as to start the adult size a shorter distance from the navel. On that basis the Chelsea girls might hike their skirts a few more inches. Then, perhaps, the government would recover its loss through an increase in sightseeing tourists...
...Negro frustrations through talk, without bringing effective action. Arthur Garcia, a Mexican-American spokesman, claims that only yes men sit on his community's councils. Felix Gutierrez, another Latin leader, notes that the L.A.P.D. still refuses to lower the height requirements so that Mexican-Americans, who tend to be shorter than other Angelenos, can join the force. (By contrast, New York has cut an inch off its previous 5 ft. 8 in. minimum to attract more Puerto Ricans.) One Mexican-American says that a riot in L.A.'s Latin ghetto would have been inconceivable two years ago; now, he fears...