Word: denning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumors had it, Caterer-cum-confectioner Lajos Onodi operated a roulette parlor in the Budapest suburb of GÖd. The gambling den, frequented by foreign diplomats as well as Hungarian officials, not only had a rigged roulette wheel but plenty of scantily clad girls-many of them recruited from Malev, the Hungarian state airline-who were raffled off as the evening progressed. On at least one occasion, a Malev hostess coated in chocolate was first prize, whereupon the Communist big shot who won her retired for a high-calory dessert...
Camped for six months in a dark den called the Five Spot, Coleman gave vent to a new style of atonal jazz, a free association of angular and seemingly disjointed sounds that brought curious jazzmen flocking to the club. Many, like Modernist Composer Gunther Schuller, found it "the first realization of all that is merely implicit in the music of Charlie Parker." Leonard Bernstein cried, "Genius!" Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson also came and were conquered. But others shared Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's reaction: "Are you cats serious?" Some even dismissed Coleman's music as "anti-jazz...
...Den Mother. Ding, dong, she isn't, indeed. She lives at 34 Gramercy Park in Manhattan. Mothers sometimes take their children to call on her so that she-Actress Margaret Hamilton, now 62 -can pacify their inchoate neuroses and assure them that she is not in carnate evil after all. She made Oz when she was 36, and worked in Hollywood for years afterward as everybody's "cantankerous cook or acidulous aunt," in her words, "with a corset of steel and a heart of gold." Today she does character parts in the theater and on TV. Before...
...stirring away as the First Witch in Macbeth. That typed her, but dramatic witchcraft could not change her basic character. She not only went on to become the hag of the half-century, she also became a member of the Beverly Hills Board of Education, and a Cub Scout den mother. Now we will be able to shut off those lights...
...While Bishop John Robinson, Dr. Paul Tillich, Albert van den Heuvel, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bishop James A. Pike and their fellow heretics are spending eternity in the punishment they so richly deserve, the God of the Bible and his virgin-born son, Jesus Christ, will continue to be, as will the Holy Spirit and the church, the Body of Christ...