Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spumoni Sodas. Fresh and cleanshaven, U.S. coffeehouses have emerged from Beatsville to branch out in a dozen directions, becoming everything from Great Books clubs to theaters for silent movies; but most significantly they have become intimate showcases for nascent theatrical talent. Greenwich Village's celebrated Phase 2 offers a sprightly 30-minute review. The present one is called Pass the Nuts, and includes a wonderful satire on Method acting: a student actor pretends he is a seed growing into a tree. Stewed Primes, the long-running revue at nearby Take 3, was so good that it moved into...
...another paper when that suits him. Somebody has said quite aptly that the newspaper editor has to be re-elected every day." This casual economic relationship has not changed; most readers place no particular value on good news coverage. In his book on the Washington press corps, The Fourth Branch of Government, Douglass Cater writes that the Washington correspondent is the most expendable man on most newspapers: he does not add to circulation, he exists by indulgence of the publisher, few readers would care if he were replaced by wire service dispatches...
...Minds. The statues uncovered at Nippur portray a cross section of Sumerian society. A priestess standing majestically with a ritual cup in one hand and a branch in the other hobnobs with an old woman with a matronly double chin. A bearded man and his wife sit holding hands in one of the very few Sumerian double statues ever found. A carefully carved woman is made of a translucent green stone not yet identified. Her face is of gold-a metal that was believed to possess purifying properties and was frequently used for the noblest parts of the sculptures...
Isaacs has been seeking to contact people in every branch of the University whose training and interests apply to Latin American problems. Professors and students in such diverse fields as architecture, sociology, nutrition, and medicine have both a great deal to learn and to contribute in Latin America, he is convinced...
...wife, the daughter of a Brazilian diplomat, entertain as lavishly at their Johannesburg mansion as they do in their New Jersey country estate. He owns racing stables in North Carolina, South Africa and England. He is active in charities of both countries, last year was president of the Johannesburg branch of the South African National Tuberculosis Association and the Somerset Hills, N.J. Community Chest...