Word: americanas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this was their reasoning, though, why didn't they exclude living political scientists and historians, too? In the academic world, where publishing a book is a condition of existence, professional jealousies, if anything, are more bitter than in the world of fiction and poetry. Besides, a collection of Americana which does not include Farrell or Baldwin or T.S. Eliot is not really representative...
Summer Magic. Hayley Mills has graduated from Pollyanna to Mother Carey's Chickens in this latest bit of Walt Disney Americana. Dorothy McGuire and Burl Ives also figure in the innocent little plot. Great escapism for jaded pre-teeners...
...gifts, nine days and eight nights of beachfront living, all meals, a day's shopping in nearby St. Thomas (boat and car transportation included) -all for $158 per person. "Suddenly, wham!" says the manager. "Everything is really moving." Over at San Juan's newly opened, 452-room Americana...
...experts in medical and related sciences who gathered last week in Manhattan's Americana Hotel spent hours listening intently to highly technical discussions of sex chromosomes, enzyme systems and skeletal development. In the Imperial Ballroom, earphones provided simultaneous translation in three languages. It was the second international conference on congenital malformations sponsored by the National Foundation-March of Dimes. The world's outstanding researchers were tackling an immense problem: one baby out of every 15 is born with some defect, be it physical, mental or chemical. In the U.S. alone, that means more than 250,000 victims each...
...critics, however, understood his idiom perfectly. "Aïda all' Americana" (Aïda American style), said La Notte, "everything bigger and better than anybody else's." Only the singers noticed that the reviews barely mentioned them at all. "I looked like my grandmother in that ancient costume," said Tenor Bergonzi, "but I don't mind if the directors get the glory today. Opera cannot go on without singers, but it can manage quite well without directors...