Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Several pupils thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were lovers; that the four horsemen appeared on the Acropolis; that the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luther and John; that Eve was created from an apple; that Jesus was baptized by Moses; that Jezebel was Ahab's donkey; and that the stories by which Jesus taught were called parodies...
...Game & Zebra Skins. Discothè-querie hit Manhattan on New Year's Eve 1962, with the advent of Le Club, a converted garage off Sutton Place. A thousand-odd members pay a $200 initiation fee and dues of $65 a year to forgather in an atmosphere that more or less suggests the living room of an impoverished baron in the family castle-glowering big game, crossed swords, a fireplace, and a half-acre tapestry. From a glassed-in aerie above the two-story room, a platter spinner manipulates the mood of the members with variety and volume, and things...
...coyly melodramatic tone, for example--eventually become obtrusive. When he attempts satire, the element of fantasy that distinguishes his funniest passages becomes mere grotesqueness. On the other hand, his excesses of sentimentality are almost embarrassing; even readers who do not mind his beginning the novel on a snowy Christmas Eve may object to his ending it, beneath a haze of pity and brotherly love, in the same manner...
...entire ploy was doubtless intended in part to please Albania's pal, Red China. The embassy harassment began last December, on the very eve of a visit by Peking's touring Chou Enlai, who was welcomed in the gnat-size Balkan backwater (pop. 1,800,000) with the brave slogan: "We and the Chinese are 700 million strong...
Wasn't Christendom once shaken by theological wrangling over the question of whether Eve had a navel? Those who maintained that navels, like noses, were indispensible anatomical particulars might have been disturbed by a Scandinavian Airlines advertisement in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times. Over the caption, "What to show your wife in Scandinavia," the ad pictured a strapping blonde with bikini but definitely without belly-button...