Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOYS IN THE BAND gather to play at a homosexual birthday party, and the melody, while at times merry, is mostly minor key. Mart Crowley's characters parry wittily and wound easily...
John Kenneth Galbraith, peripatetic ambassador, author, political adviser and now professor at Harvard, took the occasion of his 60th birthday for a bit of mental meandering. On age: "I shan't be sorry when men begin to refer to me as old. But I'll be awfully sorry when women do." On politics: "Don't go near any political headquarters. Except for a stirring at election time, they're a kind of grim repository of people who like politics and can't get jobs elsewhere." On the Washington scene: "No tourist should leave Washington without...
Parishioners at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in San Francisco were probably surprised to find themselves celebrating the 150th birthday anniversary of Socialist Philosopher Karl Marx during a Sunday Communion service. But the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike, who officiated, found the idea easy to explain. Marx, figures Pike, who resigned as Bishop of California in 1966, would have several things in common with today's Christian church and vice versa. "Both Christianity and Communism have demythologized themselves eschatologically," the bishop said. "Christians no longer believe in a Second Coming, And the Communists have given up the theory...
...time letting each other know about it. First the German playboy descended on Munich, where Bardot was on hand for the premiere of her new western, Shalako, She had already come and gone, They narrowly missed each other again in Hamburg, where Brigitte was celebrating her 34th birthday. Though B.B. pointedly told friends that she had lingered in one of Sachs' favorite nightclubs until 3 a.m. one night hoping to bump into him, Günter remained as confused as ever. "I don't even know whether I'm divorced from her," he sighed. "Unhappiness, thy first...
...Birthday of an Amendment. Despite the uncertainty of the future, Justices Warren, Fortas and William Brennan took time last week to celebrate the past. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the 14th Amendment, and at a centennial commemoration sponsored by N.Y.U. Law School, all three defended the use of the amendment's "due process clause" to strike down state laws that discriminate against Negroes or deny federally guaranteed rights. Brennan called the 14th "the prime tool by which we as citizens are striving to shape a society which truly champions the dignity and worth of the individual." Perhaps...