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Word: barroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the bar and also dusted off the photograph of old John McNulty that hangs beside Kennedy's picture. McNulty, who had gone to the Boston Latin School, was quite a man. Big, gruff, and hearty, he was quite a wit and was responsible for the sign over the barroom door. He died last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birthday Party | 2/24/1968 | See Source »

...this is a long way from the steamy atmosphere of the familiar Dylan outcry, and Dylan's own musical style has kept pace with his growing control over poetic expression. His melodic style has deepened; the bluesy Dear Landlord (in which Dylan accompanies himself on a tinny barroom piano) is a subtle, intense, spacious tune. Moreover, there are times when he abandons his customary foghorn speech-song in favor of something identifiable as singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Basic Dylan | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

Dwight Macdonald, the bearded literary critic, was aghast at the barroom bathos, but failed to argue Mailer off the platform. Macdonald eventually squeezed in the valorous observation that Ho Chi Minh was really no better than Dean Rusk. After more obscenities, Mailer introduced Poet Robert Lowell, who got annoyed at requests to speak louder. "I'll bellow, but it won't do any good," he said, and proceeded to read from Lord Weary's Castle. By the time the action shifted to the Pentagon, Mailer was perky enough to get himself arrested by two marshals. "I transgressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A SHAKY START | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

Through the week, Adam kept up his high spirits. He led barroom hymn sessions, kidded with reporters, took dockside strolls to survey Bimini's natural resources ("Is that all you? he asked one girl in a tight sweater who sauntered past). There was at least some good news to justify his buoyant mood. Exclusion made him eligible for a $15,000 pension-half his regular congressional salary. Better yet, the New York Court of Appeals, highest in the state, lopped $100,000 off the outstanding libel judgment against him and ordered a lower court to reconsider another part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: No Home in the House | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...lifetime in America and gone back to Ireland-to a rest home, cruelly enough. The occupants are in their anecdotage, but none more so than Cass. With her sandpiper walk and her sandpaper voice, Ruth Gordon jigs and jaws through meandering monologues evenly divided between past loves and barroom drolleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rhetorical Tic | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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