Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour last year, none of Britain's top orchestras have fully exploited their international fame. Last week, the New Philharmonia announced plans for a tour of Mexico and South America this summer, to be followed by a swing through Europe. Next year the orchestra that wouldn't die will make its first U.S. tour in a decade...
...sometimes pressed into exerting an ordering influence on his hopelessly muddled environment. A former freedom fighter in Spain and Ethiopia, for some reason unable to return to his native United States, Blaine has become wary of involvement--"I stick my neck out for nobody"--and is resigned to die in Casablanca - "It's a good place...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). True story of Bill Witherspoon. sentenced to die in the Cook County, Ill., electric chair on Valentine's Day unless the U.S. Supreme Court commutes the sentence...
...once the bubble burst. When Queen Anne died, the Tories were summarily turned out of office. Swift was lucky to be left with a dreary benefice in Dublin, the deanship of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The shock permanently damaged his mind. All his nightmares of rejection recurred: he suffered fugues of persecution in which delusory daggers and imaginary nooses pursued him. "I am left to die," he wailed, "like a poisoned rat in a hole...
...editor of this anthology concludes his arguments for wider distribution of LSD with the statement, "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the levels of consciousness to which men might aspire... Die Gedanken sind frei." Later in the book Dan Wakefield notes, "It has been reported that a pound of LSD dropped into a city's water supply could produce a psychosis of the population that would last long enough for enemy troops to take over...