Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...channel them as he sees fit. Shakespeare has made Richard the purveyor of artificial and ear-tickling poetry, full of wonderful imagery. In fact, Richard's speeches tend to be arias and ariosos. Never was Shakespeare more intent on creating verbal music (and indeed it is no accident that, except for King John, Richard II is his only play without a single line of prose...
...wouldn't talk about why he left the Yard-birds except to say that he wanted to make different music, but apparently it was a peaceful seperation...
Everywhere that Rockefeller spoke, he asserted that he stood a better chance than Nixon of winning for the party in November. In Huron, a delegate asked: "There's not much difference between you and Nixon, is there?" "Not much," Rocky shot back, "except that I can get elected." Addressing New Haven teenagers, most of them black, he declared: "We're a minority party, and if we could get together with some other minorities, that would be the best thing we could ever...
...nearly half its population under 25, does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given the death penalty in some states, but he cannot cast a ballot except in Kentucky and Georgia. An Alaskan can vote at 19, a Hawaiian at 20. Last week Lyndon Johnson moved to enfranchise all the 10 million Americans between...
...Unfortunately, they are those of the balalaika player, a sodden, crude-minded lowlife. Nevertheless, the dog is welcomed as an equal by the sanctimoniously proletarian house committee of the professor's apartment building. Sharik the dog becomes "Sharikov" the Soviet citizen. He is supplied with identity papers and, except for a tendency to chase cats, is indistinguishable from any other member of the ruling mass. That is to say, Bulgakov suggests, he is stupid, foulmouthed, disrespectful, noisily political, vodka-soaked, treacherous and fond of hideous neckties. After some thought, the professor chloroforms him and reverses the operation. The intolerable...