Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Sir Charles P. Snow delivered the 1960-61 Godkin lectures to an enraptured Harvard audience, he adopted the novelist's approach to illustrate his point that in modern industrial societies a handful of men make secret decision which determine "in the crudest sense whether we live or die...
...that people take drugs out of boredom. "There are people in the U.S. who are making money as entertainers by doing nothing but taking manure out of a barrel and throwing it at you.... Drugs don't make you smart, they don't necessarily make you happy, you can die from them, they cost. So what? They're there and they do something...
Inside the tight limits of musical formality, fresh ideas seem to die like birds blundering against a window. Pleasant enough music can still be written within the old boundaries, but its most pleasing aspect is likely to be its very familiarity. In their continuing search for an escape into originality, classical composers sometimes reach toward jazz, and lately they have begun to meet jazzmen coming the other way-in search of respectability. Though both schools share an adventurous spirit and an unsmiling sense of high purpose, the temptation that rules their encounters with one another is an unhappy...
...with a mail-order catalogue distressing. Yet lower prices, at-home convenience and prompt deliveries have won them over to U.S.-style mail-order retailing to a degree that seemed impossible only a few years ago. Largely responsible for this change of heart is West Germany's pioneering Die Quelle, a household word in Germany and Europe's biggest mailorder firm...
...down, and here Nine Hours to Rama should have ended. Perhaps it never should have begun. To try to tell the story of Gandhi's assassination in terms of a suspense thriller is like making a movie about Lincoln and leading the audience to believe he may die...