Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been buried among bookworms. Yet for half a century before that, from 1794 until the triumph of Dickens and Thackeray, The Mysteries of Udolpho was an international bestseller, acclaimed by Coleridge as "the most interesting novel in the English language." It enchanted Keats, who under its influence wrote The Eve of St. Agnes; it electrified Byron, who stole its hero and called him Childe Harold; it directly inspired Sir Walter Scott to produce his greatest works, the Waverly novels. And even today Udolpho commands deference as the first successful thriller in the language and the proximate cause of the grand...
...addition, there is a possibility with which the authorities may not have reckoned--that many persons who freely entered the Yard before the gates were sealed may now be unable to locate the one or two remaining openings. Should any of the deans visit the Yard some weekend eve, they might be confronted with the spectacle of thousands of Cambridge youths wandering helplessly in the Yard in search of an exit...
...full 44 years after independence before the Irish fulfilled the Dublin street ballad. Last week, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
Since Henry II could not possibly recognize himself or his brood in Goldmancolor, the playgoer should not strive to do so. Winter is rather a day in the life of that boisterous Plantagenet family in the little 12th century castle halfway down the next block. It is Christmas Eve, and a spat is in progress. That is what the play is, an interminable family spat. The three boys, or brats, want Daddy's crown, and they sulk and scream over it as if it were the prize in the Cracker Jack box. Daddy wants Mommy's booming piece...
...midsummer eve in a Negro-ghetto backyard in Detroit, Diana Ross, then 14, Mary Wilson, 14, and Florence Ballard, 15, made their first profession al appearance. They sang Your Cheat ing Heart, and afterward they passed the hat. The take: "Darn near $3," says Diana's mother. Last week at Manhattan's Copacabana, home range of the big names (Sinatra, Dean Martin), where the big beat is seldom heard, the same rock-'n'-roll trio was doing turn-away business. Diana, Mary and Florence now call themselves the Supremes, and the take...