Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin' Spoonful "jump-cut" provocatively among narratives, and interrogatives; such lively imagination no-one demanded or would have appreciated a few years ago. One can see Dylan's influence sifted down to the bottom of the heap when a dullard like P.F. Sloane ("Eve of Destruction") manages a rime as interest...
...more than half a year, Charles de Gaulle has said little in a direct way about the war in Viet Nam. Last week, fresh from his grand tour of Russia, he spoke up. In a host's toast to the King and Queen of Laos on the eve of Bastille Day celebrations, De Gaulle declared that "France condemns this...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Irish Playwright Brian Friel, knowing that every man is his own toughest critic and most devoted fan, uses two actors to play the inner and outer selves of a youth torn between nostalgia and expectation on the eve of his departure for America. The device is stunning and absorbing...
When someone asks Norman O. Brown to summarize his theories, he points to a colored print of Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which hangs in his office. The first panel is an idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...
...such nicety troubled Baltimore's Police Commissioner Bernard J. Schmidt (since resigned under fire), who was understandably anxious to catch Earl and Sam Veney, the Negro brothers who killed one policeman and gravely wounded another while robbing a liquor store on Christmas Eve, 1964. Schmidt set out to catch the Veneys with a flying squad of 50 to 60 men armed with submachine guns, tear gas and bulletproof vests. Acting almost entirely on anonymous tips, which they never verified, the squad spent 19 days in round-the-clock raids of more than 300 houses in Negro neighborhoods. They...