Word: blue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else they're leaving and coming back, trained and with a stake. To keep the place lively, the government has announced some eyecatching tax breaks for writers and artists. After all, they say to the English, "our ancestors were great scholars while yours were still running around in blue paint." Perhaps the next dream of the ahistorical Irish, besides the usual one of flooding the world with poets, priests and bums, is to become a cultural sanctuary-after other people have returned to wearing blue paint...
...simply does not drop in out of the blue and demand an audience with a famous opera star-especially if the opera star is Maria Callas. The grand diva was in Uchisar, Turkey, for the filming of her first movie, Medea, and Turkish Information Minister Nihat Kursat made a special trip to pay his respects. Kursat walked into the lobby of her hotel, sent a message to Callas announcing his arrival, and quickly received a reply: "I am tired and I don't want to talk to you." Thoroughly humiliated, Kursat flew back to Ankara, where he assured reporters...
...will be maimed, in a war which has been declared a mistake. And yet it continues. The war must end now, and the fight for our cities, for our nation, for our people must begin." As their degrees were awarded, some of the new Yale graduates released helium-filled blue balloons that soared into the June sky; Thompson's somber message would not disappear so easily...
LOOK AT THE MOON, by May Garelick, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard (Young Scott; $3.95). The moon that "casts its light for all to see" is shown in a variety of scenes painted in blue and white. A pictorial mood book with a rhyming text, both well done...
...brutalized by a police officer, that should be my concern. It's the whole goddamned thing of 'don't get involved.' " By getting involved, Ditto is molding powerless people into a significant force. Despite the reservations of many whites, the East Side clergymen and the blue-chip board of New Detroit are betting it will be a force for good. Says Baldwin: "We are nobodies. Frank Ditto is a nobody. We must come together at this level-a thousand nobodies...