Word: caf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn of the century, storming the European art scene, Dr. Atl talked anarchism in Barcelona cafés, argued with Lenin in Lausanne, published an anticlerical newspaper with a young socialist named Benito Mussolini. When the fire of Mexico's revolution was lit in 1911, Dr. Atl returned home to kindle his country's intellectuals. Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros caught the blaze from him. Dr. Atl became Mexico's Fine Arts Minister, promptly shut down the Fine Arts Academy as too traditional. The plutonic painter, more than anyone, pointed Mexican art toward...
...poetry, as well as the rejection of the objectivity and the metaphysical-symboliste tradition sponsored by T. S. Eliot." Ironically, some of these poets are the very beatniks whose novels most disturb him. Yet they have at least got poetry out of the classroom and "into the cafés: a kind of solution...
...worst. Béjart, 37, has a well-burnished reputation as an enfant terrible director of theater, ballet and opera. His talent for welding all three together into erotic iconoclastic visions of such works as The Merry Widow and The Tales of Hoffmann has made his name a café cliché: "style Béjart" means art that is mercilessly frank...
Last week Ferguson and his boys were back from a four-week tour of 24 campuses. Hamp was at Manhattan's Café Metropole, where the band is strung out behind the bar like a police lineup. Woody and his men were trudging through the sticks playing just the kind of one-nighters that build character and make big bands dear to novelists: Columbus, Neb., to Grand Island, Neb.; Grand Island to Fort Riley, Kans.; Fort Riley to Pryor, Okla...
...will be now. The hero starts out calling it la pause café and, after a few expositional lines, switches to le coffee-break; then, in an exceptionally French lyric, he rhymes...