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Word: folke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true that the area may end up looking very nice, but it won't be a neighborhood where ordinary working folk can afford to live. What's more the area won't even be a neighborhood anymore. It will become a kind of shrine to a lifestyle for those who think that a world where "the Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots only to God" is a good one. I mean, whoever heard of the Beacon Hill Little League or the Louisburg Square Women's bowling night...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Blueprint for a Power Plant | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...Gould get wind of Caine's plot to break out of jail and into a bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues of Ohio State Reformatory, where part of the movie was shot, it sometimes seemed that the wrong folk were behind bars. During a between-scenes football game that included Gould, Caan and a stunt man, Gould caught a long pass from his co-star and celebrated by doffing his clothes and leaping around the end zone. "The prison guards," observed Caan, "didn't seem to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 15, 1975 | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...they felt that when the Communists came and the war finally ended, at least the suffering would largely be over. All of us were wrong. That view of the future of Cambodia--as a possibly flexible place even under Communism, where changes would not be extreme and ordinary folk would be left alone--turned out to be a myth...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Cambodia and Crimson Politics | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...scriptwriter for Beat the Devil and The Innocents, will portray an eccentric, killer-minded billionaire in a Neil Simon comedy titled Murder by Death. "The movie will have more special effects than Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist combined," claimed Truman, whose co-stars will include Peter Folk, Alec Guinness and Elsa Lanchester. Has the author of In Cold Blood finally changed his mind about thespian intelligence? "Actors are stupid, but I'm not stupid," he replied. "Anyway, this will give them a chance to carve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 1, 1975 | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jesus the Liberator? | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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