Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the Wilde-Douglas episode, Beardsley gradually made a comeback, but his career and life were tottering toward an end. He still drew by candlelight in a darkened room, working furiously because he knew that he was doomed by his lungs. He moved from London to the softer climate of Dieppe and finally to the French Riviera. His sister had become a Roman Catholic, and Beardsley, in terror of death, soon followed. In a last letter, written in "my death agony," he begged his publisher to destroy all his "obscene drawings," particularly his series on Lysistrata, but the letter...
...architect who drew a sketch of the pocket park in front of Holyoke Center populated it with clean-cut collegiates strolling briskly to some important engagement. He clearly did not foresee that the park would be taken over by sedentary hippies mulling over the virtues of tuning in, turning on, and dropping...
...festivals-including the Kiev Ballet and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra-have stayed away. Some of Athens' theater audiences are peppered with relatives of army officers who get free tickets to keep the attendance up. Even so, the censors are vigilant. In a play in Athens, an actor drew unexpected applause when he recited, "I shall complain to my Deputy in Parliament." Censors snipped out the line before the next performance. In another play, a woman whose husband had left her joyfully cried: "Now I am free!" The audience cheered. The line was quickly changed...
When the mysterious object disappeared a few minutes later, the shaken men returned to the restaurant, where they drew rough sketches of what they had seen. "I was kind of skeptical about these flying saucers being real, but you couldn't convince me otherwise now," says Overton. "I know what...
...Fatima. In Istanbul last week, the Pope had a warm and fraternal encounter with Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople-but there was none of the drama of their first meeting three years ago on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. Though cordially received by predominantly Moslem Turkey, the Pope drew crowds modest by comparison with the millions who cheered him in Bombay and New York...