Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorkers was the fact that the mayor has been making tours of the ghetto areas ever since his inauguration last January. Before last week's violence, he strode one evening among the crowds of East Harlem, played the bongo drums with a pickup front-stoop combo, was bear-hugged by a blind Negro, tried with unquenchable determination to tidy up the streets. Another day the mayor went into the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, plowed into an angry crowd that was clamoring menacingly for more schools, and wound up bobbing on men's shoulders above a cheering throng. Lindsay...
...salt among you who cites Tinkerbelle's top speed as "seven knots an hour" [July 8]? I presume he would also go "up aloft," "down below deck," or "bear right to starboard." Tell the knothead that seven knots equals seven nautical miles an hour, and keep him away from the end of the dock...
...bull-necked gas-station attendant, who soon made it clear that he had nothing but contempt for Wacker's beloved. Words led to shoves, shoves to disaster: Wacker whipped out a revolver and shot Beinert dead. "I love my Mercedes," explained Wacker in court. "I couldn't bear to have somebody insult...
...Amerasians: "There has been war, there is war, and young American men have impregnated strange women. Of this meeting a new people is being born. Shall this new people, innocent and helpless in childhood, bear the whole burden of our times...
...People All Around is written in an old-fashioned protest-play form that seems utterly void of impact in the 1960's. Moments bear a striking resemblance to Waiting for Lefty. The play as a whole comes most definitely from a genre that pervaded the Odets era; Sklar's earlier titles, in fact, include works like Peace on Earth (1933), Stevedore (1934), and Life and Death of an American (1939), the final production of the Federal Theatre Project. Even the title And People All Around is revealing of the author's toward the "serious theatre" he sees this country lacking...