Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animal partisans rose in outrage, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested the "ritual slaughter." Comedian Spike Milligan argued, in all seriousness, for laws to protect defenseless fish. Finally the Arts Council of Great Britain and the R.S.P.C.A. worked out a compromise: the feast would go on, but the fish would not be killed in public. Americans who missed the fish show could catch another Harrison exhibit this week in La Jolla. Called La Jolla Promenade, it displays snails being nibbled by white ducks. Whatever the ducks leave will be served up to art lovers...
When Harvard beat Yale, 29-29, in 1968, Vellucci rewarded the entire squad with an Italian feast. "If the team beats Yale this fall, we'll treat them to a real Italian dinner--ravioli, bread, wine, the works," Vellucci said...
...What a feast of previously unpublished material it contains-everything from an encounter between Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in a Kremlin steam bath ("a converted dungeon of the early czars") to Stalin's private reaction to North Korean Premier Kim Ilsung's invasion of South Korea in 1950: " 'That Asiatic m- ,' Stalin cursed under his breath in Georgian, 'has made a fool...
...Terms. Despite all the atmosphere of a reconciliatory love feast, the congress's stated central theme was aggression. With this the orthodox analysts had difficulty coming to grips, as had the master himself long ago. Freud at first identified aggression with sadism and therefore related it to sexuality. In the 1920s he revised his views and accorded aggression the status of a separate instinct. He also related it to his theory of a death instinct. Five eminent analysts had been invited to make major presentations on aggression at a plenary session, and most of their long discussion was devoted...
...ponds-and solved most of them. He is the Cézanne of Abstract Expressionism, like him a prophetic figure who was much greater than what he foretold. This fact was recognized by the "rediscovery" of Monet that took place in New York in the late '50s (a feast considerately laid on for the return of a Prodigal Father who had never actually been away...