Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their verse, they are reaching the widest, best-educated public in Russian history. The result has been a remarkable poetic revival. In theaters and student hostels from White Russia to Central Asia, overflow crowds listen to poets with almost religious fervor. On Sunday nights in summer, city squares echo to the liquid, incantatory cadences of Pushkin. Lermontov and. often. Zhenya Evtushenko. One good reason for poetry's popularity: scraps of "noiseless verse," as Russian writers call work that is too avant-garde or radical for publication, can easily be mimeographed and surreptitiously distributed from one group of youths...
...Echo of the Past." Then came the headlines over Nixon's "carpetbagger" cries at Jack Kennedy when the President flew in to California to make a non-political speech. The Los Angeles Times, once as loyal a Nixonite as Pat Nixon herself, frowned disapprovingly. Wrote James Bassett, the Times's political analyst - and Nixon's chief press officer in 1956: "Nixon's mistake lay in the timing of his remarks. President Kennedy very definitely was in California on high-plane, nonpolitical business...
...Francisco last week. "The harder he runs, the more he stumbles. Even in his home state after all these years, he seems trapped by that old familiar but vague charge that 'there is something about him that troubles me.' One hears it all again, like the echo of the past in a tragic play...
This time Pop (Karl Maiden) wires the bail, and Berry-berry, risking reactivation of his Momplex, hitchhikes home to Cleveland for Christmas. There he finds an unexpected present: a blonde called Echo O'Brien (Eva Marie Saint). They fall in love, and for a few idyllic weeks Berry-berry lives for more than kicks. But when Echo gets pregnant. Berry-berry gets lost. In despair, she drives her car off an embankment. "I hate life!" Berry-berry groans. But he goes right on living, if it can be called that...
...there is one part of U.S. business that is vibrantly healthy, it is the auto market. Sales are galloping 30% ahead of last year, production is up 50%. The country clubs of Bloomfield Hills echo with bullish snorts about a 6.6 million car year, including imports, best since 1955's fabled 7.1 million. This is important to the whole economy because autos mean steel, rubber, glass, zinc, aluminum and textiles, and also because of the popular belief that if autos roll well not too much can be wrong with business in general. Now the spring selling season begins...