Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four hours and a million rows of corn south of Chicago. The festival has drawn 1,500 men, wom en and children from as far away as Mexico and Oregon. Clad in overalls, pedal pushers, business suits and military uniforms, they seem to represent every age group, income bracket, occupation-but only one race. "You're welcome to join us, as long as you're white," John R. Harrell, founder of the league, said over the phone a few days earlier. "We work with all races, but we don't believe in mixing them. We feel that...
Instructors in fatigues and mufti are still lecturing on the fine points of treason, gun handling and dandelion cook ery. Off to the side, a group of apple-cheeked, grade-school-age girls in ging ham dresses, children of members of the audience, are sitting on swings, singing chorus after chorus of Jesus Loves...
...feel and flavor of it, the ebb and flow of events, the camaraderie of the people involved. His expertise is both instinctive and the result of years of training, first under the aegis of his brothers and then in the Senate. He became a Senator in 1963 at the age of 30, almost inheriting the seat that had once been held by his brother Jack and then kept warm by a Kennedy lieutenant until Teddy reached the Senate's minimum legal age. ("If your name was Edward Moore your candidacy would be a joke," his defeated Democratic rival said bitterly...
Thus ended the life of Jesse Walter Bishop, 46, heroin addict and career criminal who committed his first armed robbery at age 15 and passed 22 of his last 27 years behind bars. With similar steadfastness, Bishop had denounced all efforts made on his behalf by civil libertarians to stay his execution for the 1977 murder of Newlywed David Ballard, 22, during a casino stickup in Las Vegas. Indeed, Bishop waived his right to a jury trial and immediately pleaded guilty to the killing...
Born in 1883, Webern came of age amidst the last flowering of Viennese culture. He knew the writer Karl Kraus; he was painted by Oskar Kokoschka and treated by Psychiatrist Alfred Adler. Yet by choice and necessity, he remained a soul apart. He lived a frugal, ascetic life with his wife and four chil dren, eking out his income by teaching, by doing hack jobs for his music pub lisher and by conducting. He had a mea sure of success on the podium despite his distaste for the hubbub of the per forming life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from...