Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of the United States." Louisiana's Russell Long, who will succeed Harry Byrd as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee when Congress reconvenes next month, showed his innocence of economics by protesting: "Nothing could be more unpopular than a major increase in interest rates on the eve of Christmas, when the average man will be borrowing money to provide gifts of joy to his wife and children. Mr. Martin's Christmas gift to the money lenders is an example of Dickens' Christmas Carol told in reverse...
...sometimes mischievous effect on the faces and figures that comprise Britain's art establishment. On a pedestal in the basement of the Tate Gallery, surrounded by cocooned statues that have fallen from public favor, sits Sir John Rothenstein, looking a bit discarded himself (he was on the eve of retirement as the Tate's director). Britain's new generation of artists are shown in their untidy studio lairs, and although their names may not resonate beyond art circles, Lord Snowdon brings them all very much to life. The artists are represented by specimens of their work, many...
...ACTT (Youth Expresses Support Through America's Trains and Trucks), backed by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans, is working to fill 100 railroad boxcars with sorely needed supplies for the people of South Viet Nam, already has 20 cars packed for Christmas Eve loading aboard a ship in Oakland, Calif. To G.I.s have gone 35 to 40 tons of cookies from Pennsylvania residents, 150,000 greeting cards from one group in a New Jersey town, and daily bags of mail from all over the U.S., addressed simply: "G.I. Joe, Viet Nam." A high...
...nosed H13 Sioux helicopter fluttered close by. Braveboy unwrapped his hand and waved the bloody shirt for all he was worth. The chopper swung in overhead and dropped a cardboard box of C-rations. In it was turkey loaf, and only then did Braveboy realize that it was Thanksgiving eve...
...composer who scorns the avant-garde ("They are all writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer's Eve-were charmingly melodic, but the overall impact was blandly uncompelling. The sets, which Rorem confesses he "hates," were gingerbread concoctions totally antithetical to the spirit of the opera, and Soprano Marguerite Willauer in the title role sang with the handicap of a severe cold...