Word: carols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aided by widespread publicity, including the movie Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Jane Howard's bestseller, Please Touch, the movement is spreading explosively. Two years ago, when California's Esalen Institute first sought to export its own brand of the new gospel east, 90 curious New Yorkers showed up for a five-day encounter group in Manhattan. A similar event last year drew 850; last April, 6,000. Since January 1969, when Donald Clark counted 37 "growth centers"-established sites for the development of human or group potentials-the census has risen past...
...WHEEL OF LOVE AND OTHER STORIES by Joyce Carol Oates. 440 pages. Vanguard...
Often, Joyce Carol Oates' creations suggest 19th century romantic novels: a Tolstoy heroine tuned to the breaking point over the frets of love, a Dostoevsky soul glutton, a Stendhal glory hound. The settings, however, are strictly 20th century American, illuminated by sheets of cold neon. Urban infestations where "taxes are rising and the tax base is falling," suburbs that miraculously exist for hours without the visible presence of human life, transitional neighborhoods where elderly holdouts keep their white elephants alive by secretly feeding them boarders...
Born. To Natalie Wood. 32. Hollywood veteran (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice], and Richard Gregson, 40, her producer husband of 16 months: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles...
Dolly did it. Last Wednesday, with its 2,718th performance, Hello, Dolly! passed My Fair Lady's record as the longest-running musical on Broadway. Way back on Jan. 6, 1964, Carol Channing opened the show. After nine months, Ginger Rogers took over; then came Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey (and an all-black cast), Phyllis Diller, and now Ethel Merman, who has extended her contract to Dec. 26, 1970. Considering Dolly's longevity, the question arises, who's next? Producer David Merrick has it figured out. "Liberace. And we can call it Hello, Bruce...