Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVERY year, the old man orders that his birthday be officially ignored, and every year it is celebrated as a national holiday. Early this week, in the wake of a stinging repudiation by the assembled nations of the world, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was to observe his 84th birthday, and so the presidential office building in Taipei was decorated with pine trees and long noodles, both symbols of longevity. An army chorus of 10,000 men gathered to sing Long Live the President. Some 20,000 others prepared to chant the same message from the mountains of southern Taiwan...
...William M. Kunstler requested the pleasure of the Chicago Seven's company at a birthday party in honor of Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale at their home, West Street, Mamaroneck, N.Y. This highlight of the social season gathered the "conspirators" together (with the exception of Tom Hayden, who was busy in San Diego making his own plans for the 1972 Republican National Convention) for the first time since their trial ended early in 1970. Draft beer, chips and pretzels were served, and 35-year-old Bobby was presented with a dark blue sweater. After blowing out the seven conspiratorial...
...Kitty Hawk. He was well known by the start of World War I and a celebrity when it ended. Since then, his reputation has increased exponentially, to the point where the shape of 20th century art is unimaginable without him. This week Picasso turned 90, and his birthday summoned a procession of tribute bearers. The Louvre has turned over its Grande Galerie to a selection of Picasso's work, the first time in its history that this honor has been extended to a living artist. Said President Georges Pompidou, opening the show: "This is not a Picasso exhibition; this...
Lost Passion. Life is not like this, and neither is Picasso's. The elaborate fiesta that the mayor and citizens of Vallauris have prepared for his birthday will go largely unrecognized by Picasso, predicted his dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 87, who has known the artist since 1907. "I'm sure that he will disappear for his birthday this year as usual. Perhaps he won't even leave his house. But he will cut the telephone; he will start saying that he is traveling somewhere. He always does." Picasso still dresses with a dandyism beyond the wildest dreams...
...remember being really bored by a play on the evening of my tenth birthday," Max Beerbohm once wrote. How sad that he would have been equally bored by The Incomparable Max, the play that owes its title to Bernard Shaw's apt and durable phrase. Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee also came to praise Sir Max, but they ended up burying...