Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singers first came to be called buskers.* They were then best known for their obscene songs, but they gained respectability as they moved to the sidewalks and brought along their own touch of music-hall gaiety. George Bernard Shaw loved them. So did Actor Charles Laughton, who used to gather a group around him in their favorite pub, the Black Swan, and buy them sandwiches and a barrel of beer. Buskers basically are drifters, as Accordionist Tony Turco admits: "You have got to be a performer or else you are nothing but a disguised beggar...
...official address was an evocation of the striving and optimism that are basic to the American temperament: "We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us gather the light." The new President of the U.S. has that opportunity, and, indeed, an urgent summons...
...Francisco every Thursday evening, several dozen people gather inside a dilapidated loft building, doff some of their clothing and begin a strangely primitive ritual. Joining hands, they wind around the room in a silent processional. Or they playfully hold one another aloft. Or they scurry, like lab animals, through a huge plastic maze. Rites of an oddball religious cult? High jinks by residents of nearby Haight-Asbury? Not at all. These outlandish ceremonies are actually "myths" performed with audience participation by Ann Halprin's avant-garde Dancers' Workshop...
...SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER by James Wright. 58 pages. Wesleyan...
...change. Ninety per cent of the undergraduates polled by the HPC favored the idea of optional coed living accommodations and almost half the Harvard students as well as 60 per cent of the Cliffies said they were willing to pack their bags and move next term. The crowds that gather for lunch every day at Lehman Hall and the huge number of Harvard students who make the trek to Hilles each night confirm just how eager students here are for informal coeducational contacts...