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Word: carats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN (Epic). Time was when British Folk Singer Donovan, with his dreamy surrealistic ballads, was known as a psychedelic Pied Piper. His new album suggests that he is still a 24-carat hippie; he is photographed decked out in a robe with beads, posies and peacock feathers, and his gentle singsongs ooze various kinds of blissfulness ("His kisses on your brow/You may rest assured peace is coming"). Yet the self-styled minstrel has a stern message to his followers: "Stop the use of all Drugs and banish them into the dark and dismal places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...Fourteen-carat gold in my mouth, silk upon my back...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Dylan Gets Religion | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

...sing beautifully. "Fourteen-carat gold in my mouth, silk upon my back." Listen...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Dylan Gets Religion | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

...mile-deep mines and then bury it in hermetically sealed vaults because, when all other currencies fail, gold can buy anything, anywhere. Particularly prized by political refugees, nervous dictators and indulgent sugar daddies, gold is eternal, objective and anonymous. Says U.S. Economist Sidney Rolfe, a 24-carat expert: "To an American, 100 shares of Xerox represents security. To a European, gold is security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DOLLAR IS NOT AS BAD AS GOLD | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...beauty who inspired 24-carat tributes in life, Marilyn Monroe seems to have elicited little more than tencent souvenirs in five years as a memory. At least that was the gist of a "Homage to Marilyn" art show at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery. Of 50 works by 36 artists, by far the better half, from de Kooning, Rosenquist and Warhol, among others, predated her death in 1962. The recent works were second-rate or worse, with the booby prize going to Salvador Dali for a ten-foot mobile, obviously whomped up for the occasion, that features a pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 15, 1967 | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

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