Word: flee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more. In the end, everybody works double." The rich too pay for their fun. Brazilian Couturier Evandro Castro Lima is working on ten dazzling fantasias for society women. He himself will strut this year as Harun al-Rashid, in a besequined and bejeweled costume that weighs 105 lbs. "We flee the present," he explains. "We want to feel the vibrations of great kings and queens." To get the right vibrations, his customers pay up to $2,500 for a fantasia. This year, however, the vibrations will not be quite the same: living up to its stern moralistic image, the government...
...them loose in what has always been a typical American literary form-the novel of youthful escape and adventure. From Huckleberry Finn to On the Road, the characters in such stories yearn for joyful freedom; their picaresque progress becomes a disapproving comment on the society they are trying to flee. Forced back into confrontation with that society-as the main characters in Irving's fine first novel are-they tend to dream up quixotic schemes for drastically revising the world they hoped to reject. In this case, the reform involves an inspired plan to liberate all the animals...
...predicts that some $3,000,000 worth of buildings, windows, and furniture would be bomed out of existence on every day of full national SST operations. And in addition to this house-shattering, Shurcliffe says that chickens will suffocate in boom panics, cattle will stampede, and fish will flee from boomed water areas...
...contracts was escorted by Mexican policemen across the international bridge at Laredo, Texas. He was immediately arrested by the FBI. Morton Sobell, then 33, had been in Mexico for two months, using a string of aliases. The U.S. Government was later to contend that Sobell had been planning to flee behind the Iron Curtain after six years of spying for the Soviet Union. Sobell vigorously denied the accusation, but his trial for espionage resulted in a 30-year jail sentence. Morton Sobell was soon forgotten by most Americans. Last week, a revenant from oblivion, he stepped...
...medium between lyric singing and his own device of sprechstimme, by setting his expressionist text to notes of various vertical distances above and below a reference line. The work, described as "savage" in the program notes but bordering on melodrama, describes Schoenberg's raging desperateness as the Jews flee Nazist Warsaw, and his resumption of the Jewish faith in the face of this tragic modern Diaspora. This profound personal utterance seems to suffer from the same type of self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned...