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...spent most of Saturday evening at Frank's house, abut soon discovered that after comparing how seriously we all had been gassed there really wasn't much else...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Memoirs of a Would-be Street lighter | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Tuesday no one got lunch, and the volunteers and some of the poor people wandered off to look for something to eat. Work just abut stopped completely in the afternoon. John Miller, a Harvard junior who came down because "all of a sudden I realized I didn't have any exams," was working on an A-frame shelter with a carpenterish-looking white man from Miami, Florida. At 3 p.m. Tuesday they were the only ones hammering. The man from Florida said he came because the 12 tribes of Israel are supposed to show up sometime before June 6 "right...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Resurrection City U.S.A. | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...today's one-story, "open-plan" efficiency home, bedrooms abut on "family rooms," kitchens spill over into dining areas, and walls are wafer 'thin - affording, altogether, about as much privacy as a day on Candid Camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: All Quiet on the Homefront | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Swan is a quiet movie abut love, set in a country palace of Hungary in the early part of the century. It has three attractions: Grace Kelly, Alec Gunniess, and a new twist on the old triangular plot...

Author: By Michael G. Mayer, | Title: The Swan | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...plot of Escapade is a whips about a Pacifist whose three sons flee boarding school, steal a plane, and fly to Geneva with an adolescents' peace petition. The play proves above all that children must be seen if the audience is going to hear abut them all evening. Icarus, the eldest son, is constantly discussed but is never on the stage. By description, he seems so colorful that it is curious for playwright Roger MacDougall to waste time with the boy's parents...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Escapade | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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