Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, a few blocks away up Garden Street, a revolution has taken place, silent and almost unremarked. There, shortly after the Columbia uprising, the Radcliffe administration agreed to let students sit on the Radcliffe College Council -- the equivalent of the Harvard Corporation. As yet they will not be regular members, but will attend meetings "at the invitation of the President...
Winter-grown green peppers, grapes and watermelons from Lebanon now reach dinner tables in London almost as rapidly as in Beirut. They get to Covent Garden, where the melons fetch 50?, v. 8? in a Lebanese bazaar, by means of cargo planes and because of the sagacity of a 40-year-old Lebanese with some slick trading talents...
...least is how the dramatic moment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was envisaged by Broadway Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...
Simon for President. Does it really matter what the Beautiful People think? Yes, in a way. McCarthy might have brought many people to Madison Square Garden all by himself, but a mass of other entertainers helped make the night a smash: the $300,000 take provided more than a third of the entire budget for his California campaign...
...propositions set the play's anguished tone. One derives from Christianity, and the other from Greek mythology. Both involve modern man's reversal of his traditional beliefs and show how present desolation, ironically, was born in past faith. Expelled from the Garden of Eden, man was bereft; expelling God from the cosmos, modern man is equally bereft. The legendary Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give men life, light, art and wisdom...