Word: famous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tempting Christ three times (the second two temptations are shown in mini-miniature in the background). The principal scene shows the devil in the wilderness offering Christ a rock and boldly challenging him to turn the stone into bread. Christ resists the temptation, and one can almost hear the famous words "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." For a Queen, it was doubtless meant as a gentle reminder that if divinity resists temptation, then so must royalty...
...world is too much with us," wrote William Wordsworth in a famous sonnet, and Russell Baker echoes the poet three times a week in the New York Times. A funny place to do it, in a paper full of world news. But to Humorist Baker, 42, even a fraction of all the news that's fit to print is far too much. "The law of life," he writes, "is that there is almost always less happening than meets...
...aquiline features and voracious energy give him the appeal of a matinee idol and make him a kind of culture hero. Even the English translation of his first name-"powerful sword"-seems to personify his character. In Los Angeles, strangers hail him as "Zubi baby." Everywhere, the wealthy and famous seek him out, and females from teeny-boppers to blue-haired patronesses shiver
Were the recent indictments of Spock, Coffin, et al part of a coolly calculated policy? Or an act of desperation? Or both? Let me suggest a context which may explain why the government chose this time to prosecute some articulate and famous spokesman from the draft resistance movement...
Finding time running out the government now seeks a dramatic confrontation to prove that even famous people involved in draft resistance are not immune from prosecution. The fundamental purpose of this attack is not to put Spock, Coffin, et al away, to make martyrs of them, but to intimidate into inaction those thousands of others whose daily activities now give life to the movement, those without whom Spock and Coffin, for all their courage, would be isolated and ineffective. A week ago no one could have predicted the outcome. Today it is clear that the government has failed. Moreover people...