Word: cree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Primate of Greece, and one of the new government's first decrees was an order solemnly commanding Greece's young people to attend church. Last week the junta's reforming zeal turned on the church itself. With a curt de cree, the government dismissed the 86-year-old Chrysostomos and the twelve bishops of the Holy Synod, the church's highest governing body. In as the new Primate went Archimandrite leronymos Kotsonis, a professor of canon law who happens to be personal chaplain to King Constantine. The government also replaced...
...music was improved, the lyrics slightly more comprehensible. With Bob Dylan, rock also blossomed into a hybrid called folk-rock, but folk itself stayed with its perennial purist, Joan Baez (Farewell, Angelina) and the young American Indian Composer Buffy Sainte-Marie, who as a singer is a sort of Cree Callas, with more conviction than voice...
...they are captivated. All week long, listeners packed into the Main Point coffeehouse in Bryn Mawr, Pa., to hear Folk Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie. In a trade plagued by imitators studiously imitating each other, Buffy Sainte-Marie is uniquely herself. To begin with, she is a full-blooded Cree Indian. As such, she grew up a moody loner in a white man's world, she took lessons from no one, listened to no records, has had little truck with the chummy folk fraternity. She writes her own songs, and at 23 she is the most intriguing young folk singer...
...stroyed by Dr. Chay-iz-wi-yuck," says Tammy (Sandra Dee). "When he isn't around, Ah git such a sweetly sa-yud emptiness that it jest cree-yups through the crannies of man beein'. It's got me plum' discombobulated." Observes Dr. Cheswick (Peter Fonda), with face as straight (and wooden) as a tongue depressor: "I like the way you say things, Tammy-it's so unusual." In line of duty, Sandra proves to be a Florence Nightmare. She discovers a patient in the process of operating his neck-traction rig, dashes into...
Died. Chief Big Bear, 78, Cree Indian performer in Will Rogers' and Tom Mix's gusty Wild West shows, whose baritone voice was praised by Enrico Caruso for its "remarkable control and range," whose craggy profile became the Pontiac automobile emblem; in Indianapolis...