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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth-year graduate student in mathematics was denied entrance to Canada last Wednesday after immigration officials discovered a box of SDS literature in his possession. He was admitted a day later after posting $1000 bond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Customs Officials Harass SDSer Entering Canada | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

Guilt is running nudity a close second at theater box offices. Flesh peddling is relatively honest, since it makes no particular pretense of moral grandeur. But when the clink of commerce purports to be the thunder of conscience, all sorts of hypocrisies begin masquerading as virtues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: The Guilt Glut | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...their place were white walls and gray carpeting. And for the first time in the museum's history, the moderns held center stage. The show, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970," was organized by the Met's controversial curator of contemporary arts, Henry Geldzahler (see box, page 81). A gargantuan display spreading over 35 galleries, a space that would easily accommodate the entire Museum of Modern Art, it traces the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism through its later manifestations in hard-edged abstraction on to the violent reaction that coalesced in Pop art. Essentially, it is the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From the Brink, Something Grand | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...hung around for twenty minutes or so I'd get a good look at some of the slice-of-life people, that went to the agricultural school, in action. Getting involved rapidly in the atmosphere of the joint. I ripped off my tie, flipped a quarter in the juke box, and roared for a beer and something...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

...hordes of fans that would patronize the place night after night. By now the patrons had started overturning tables on each other, and the girls were yelling that they were going to become very ill in a very short time. There was much vulgarity, and as the juke box offered "Wedding Bell Blues," the locals were slowly toppling to the floor in a mass of writhing, swearing, drink-crazed youth...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 10/21/1969 | See Source »

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