Word: ballades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those 17-hour-day high school students. Tonight's homework: algebra, study for French test, memorize French dialogue, read a chapter on Molière and answer 16 questions, study for history test, write essay on Brotherhood Week, answer four history essay questions, write ballad for English and composition for Creative Writing. Then I am supposed to have time to work on long-range assignments: reading four books in two weeks, working on a term paper and several compositions. Good grief...
Their first significant break with the big beat was Paul McCartney's wistfully beautiful ballad Yesterday, sung to the stately accompaniment of a string quartet. The recording sold 1,800,000 copies, and almost instantly all the shaggies were on the Bach-rock kick. The Beatles followed with another bestseller...
...Ballad Of The Green Berets--Barry Sadler...
Married. Michael Dunn, 32, actor, whose 3-ft. 10-in. size has stretched into a bright career on stage (The Ballad of the Sad Café), screen (Ship of Fools) and TV (CBS's Wild Wild West series); and Joy Talbot, 28, 5-ft. 4-in. Manhattan model; in Manhattan...
...count him out. For one thing, the divided Tories had no one better-including Camp-to thrust onto the hustings if a new election were suddenly called. Aware of this, Diefenbaker was hardly inclined to quit. "Fight on, my men," he urged his supporters, recalling a medieval English ballad. "I am wounded, but I am not slain. I'll lay me down and rest a while, and then I'll rise and fight again...