Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NEIL SEDAKA'S credentials hardly need airing. With a style closely related to Pitney's Sedaka has created a sound--from The Diary through Carol, Little Devil, Stairway to Heaven, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen, World Through A Tear--that inevitably blends his whole work into a single medley with scarcely detectable demarcations...
...lest they end up paying empty tribute to the man at no cost save that in the substance of his cause, we now must, as he did, speak truth to power. Do not establish a national holiday on his birthday or issue stamps in his memory, or make any other gestures on this order. These will not even avert the riots we fear. Do not do these, unless you--unless we--are really prepared to act out the content of his life, the explicit politics of his religion...
Obvious Attempt. East Germans had expected Ulbricht to present his new set of laws at the very earliest on June 30, when he celebrates his 75th birthday. His haste to push the constitution through at the earliest possible date is an obvious attempt to buttress his own position at a time when change and unrest are sweeping over his two closest Communist neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The last surviving Stalinist ruler in the Soviet bloc, Ulbricht feels ill at ease and isolated. As matters stand today in Eastern Europe, his introduction of such a backward-looking document may make...
...beyond this, the city has good reason to pick a fair as its 250th birthday present to itself. For what the city has really accomplished is urban renewal under the guise of a carnival, with the Federal Government paying a portion of the bill. Already the $158 million fair has turned 147 acres of downtown San Antonio "from slum to jewel box," as Texas' Governor John Connally puts it, provided the city with a permanent new $13.5 million Civic Center and contributed an impressive symbol of progress in the 622-ft.-high Tower of the Americas, tallest observation tower...
Bowman and Poole are inhuman. Their faces register no emotion and they show no tension; their few decisions are always logical and the two always agree; Poole greets a televised birthday message from his gauche middle-class parents on Earth with complete lack of interest--he is, for practical purposes, no longer their child. With subtle humor, Kubrick separates one from the other only in their choice of food from the dispensing machine: Poole chooses food with clashing colors and Bowman selects a meal composed entirely within the ochre-to-dark brown range. In a fascinating selection of material, Kubrick...