Word: allens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enormously to U.S. resources. In the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, Americans have won 31 out of 63 Nobel prizes. Among the discoveries in pure science attributed to American scholars in the last decade are the total synthesis of cortisone, intense radiation in outer space (the Van Allen belt), the magnification of light (the laser) and the discovery of intergalactic...
...York commuters, said Nassau County Leader Eugene Nickerson last week, "travel in rolling slums -if they roll at all." When four commuters who share this opinion got together recently and staged a minor rebellion, they learned just how tough the authorities can be. The rebels were an employment counselor, Allen Simmons, 21, and three secretaries, Diane Glucksman, 21, Carole Geiger, 22, and Frances Piecora...
...called Beat poets rebelled against both society and the academic, formalist mode of poetry. Three schools of revolutionary poets were founded: the San Francisco school of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder; the Black Mountain school of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley; and the New York school of Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. Basically, the San Francisco school represented a fresh imagism combined with oriental influences; the Black Mountain group leaned toward an intellectual eclecticism typical of Ezra Pound's Cantos; and the New York school was surreal and Dadaistic...
...George Allen cried. One group of fans burned Danny in effigy. Others picketed Danny's office and formed a citizens' council to reinstate the coach. The players took a poll of the team and reported that 38 out of 40 loved Allen. Eight of them said that if he left, they would too. The team, said All-Pro Defensive Tackle Merlin Olsen, was not "the exclusive toy of a rich man." Danny was hurt, but lest the revolt further the movement for pro players to have more say in management, he tried to stand...
Innocent Beauty. Selected by Allen Wardwell, 33, curator of primitive arts at the Art Institute, the comprehensive exhibit shows how the ancient Indian goldsmiths ground, hammered and cast the precious metal into highly stylized objects. Though the innocent beauty of the pieces was lost on the greedy conquistadores, it has intrigued modern artists such as Lipchitz, Moore, Klee, Brancusi and Dubuffet...