Word: birth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...column of marchers then black-flagged their way down to the Lampoon building in Freedom Square where the magazine was rolling a huge birth control pill down Bow Street specifically, for the benefit of a television news camera crew. X, without explanation, halted this demonstration and demanded an end to the English department at Harvard. The ibises and narthexes of the Lampoon got very upset about this; but the newsmen were even more so. They threatened to leave if their news wasn't allowed to proceed as it had been about to. The cameras were consequently allowed to roll amid...
...between life and art was supposed to dissolve, and there would in the end be no difference between the way things were "out there" and their representation in the work of art. ". . . you get the impression," Pauline Kael has written, "that such cinema theorists think that Griffith shot The Birth of the Nation while the battles were raging, that Eisenstein was making newsreels, and that Rossellini and Bunuel were simply camera witnesses to scenes of extraordinary brutality...
...consistently reflected Moynihan's deep concern with the first few years of childhood development, an area in which he feels research has progressed far enough to warrant permanent legislation-unlike many other aspects of the poverty program. Said Nixon: "We have learned that intelligence is not fixed at birth, but is largely formed by the environmental influences. We must make a national commitment to providing all American children an opportunity for healthful and stimulating development during the first five years...
Whatever they are (and I'll try to explain in a moment), Bacharach-David songs deserve a special and honored place in the rock schene, even though they fulfill a much different artistic calling than that of the hard rock tradition that gave birth to Hair...
...first act shows an aristocratic bunch of Frenchmen who deliberately set out to humiliate an ex-classmate of lowly birth, Bitos, who has managed to rise to a high and powerful post in the Judiciary in post-Liberation France. This is accomplished by having all the dinner party guests dress up as characters from the French Revolution. Bitos is cast as Robespierre and subjected to much abuse from the other upper class guests...