Word: contacting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agnew's Style. It was not Ellington's first contact with the White House. His father was a part-time butler in Harding's day, and in the past the Duke himself has been honored with membership on the National Arts Council. But it was by far his most pleasant experience with a President. Besides Nixon's Happy Birthday, played on the eagle-legged piano of the East Room stage, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew sat down to play two of Ellington's own compositions, Sophisticated Lady and In a Sentimental Mood, in a surprisingly...
...Bialoguski, it was $6,000, which went for renting the hall, hiring the 79-man orchestra and a guest soloist, Pianist Fou Ts 'Ong. Bialoguski also paid for such extras as a pair of contact lenses to replace his thick, dark-rimmed glasses ("the eye is important in guiding musicians...
...acid beside Ken Kesey's Doctor Johnson. The book's ecstatic, exploding prose reads like the litany of a convert. Yet while he sees Kesey's Merry Pranksters as the hippie prototypes of an increasing search for religious experience in America, Wolfe himself felt no personality change during his contact with them. Unlike Mailer, Wolfe appears to have preserved the distinction between participant and reporter...
About March, CRIMSON readers puzzled over classified ads blaring: "Wanted: 100 pounds of raw meat and a cage. Contact: Jubilee Committee." This, of course, was a prelude to the surprise announcement that The Animals had been hired to perform for the freshmen. What is particularly amazing is that this group was chosen before it had reached the apex of its stardom and therefore before it became financially unfeasible. Saturday night, Jubilarians enjoyed a floating party, complete with band and liquid mixer, aboard a huge pleasure cruiser. Few participants remembers, or care, that for a full hour the boat never left...
When any vertebrate animal is "invaded" by foreign proteins-whether bacteria, viruses, or tissues from another animal as in a graft or transplant-the invaders soon meet one of the host's body cells that is armed with the appropriate antibody. This contact is a signal to the cell to divide. Its progeny also divide and soon there is an army of antibodies, each able to seize and hold two invading molecules. Powerful scavenger cells such as phagocytes then can go into action and effectively remove both combatants...