Word: farrago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the first his verse was simple, sensual, strong; though he rarely employed a metaphor, he continually induced his readers to produce their own images, to feel in their bodies what appeared on the page. At 22, in a violent convulsion of composition, he produced a five-act farrago called Götz von Berlichingen that read like second-rate Shakespeare but made him famous overnight as a leader in a new literary movement called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress...
...N.A.A.C.P., helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. In the fledgling New Republic, he flayed the conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations." Irate alumni nearly got Frankfurter fired, but Harvard could hardly dump a man whom Justice Louis D. Brandeis called "the most useful lawyer in the United States...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford break from a wedding march into a scrappy farrago of newlywed problems. Director Mike Nichols paces the contest to leave the audience a few breaths between laughs...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford break from a wedding march into a scrappy farrago of newlywed problems. Director Mike Nichols paces the contest to leave the audience a few breaths be tween laughs...
...Cheerleader. A few hours later Khrushchev resumed his cheerleading at an attraction more to his liking: a 4½-hour anti-U.S. farrago by Cuba's Fidel Castro. Castro made the first of several hundred misstatements of fact when he declared royally that "we" will "endeavor to be brief." As he speechified on and on, more than half his audience, notably including India's Jawaharlal Nehru, gradually drifted out of the Assembly. But Khrushchev with grim determination hung on, saluted savage Castro blasts at the U.S. by raising his right arm. Each time...