Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eloquent commentary on the single's problem is quoted in the Essay. As for reporting on the single life, he found that "it is a bit like reporting China-you can't believe everything you hear, and not even a lot of what you see. You gather most of your material by indirection-by looking, listening, being part of-rather than by asking." Sometimes, when he asked, the source was decidedly suspicious: "Try to tell a tableful of pretty girls in a busy dating bar that you're from TIME and want to buy them a drink...
...when a school trailer arrives in a village for its 31-month stay, it becomes a popular social center. The young children sit under an awning attached to the trailer for basic Spanish instruction in the morning, older youths return from farm chores to study in the afternoon, adults gather at night...
...where Sandy was mainly raised. Her mother toiled as a secretary, lest their daughter ever be unindulged. Sandy, after all, was a quick, creative child who read ferociously long before she got to school. Later on, she regularly gobbled six or seven books a week, favoring Willa Gather and Shakespeare...
...little to restore order. Reinforced by unpopular Northerners, General Huang Yung-sheng's local garrison concentrates on trying to keep the cash-earning flow of fruits and vegetables moving down to Hong Kong, 90 miles away. But even that job may soon become tougher as the feuding Cantonese gather stocks of arms. Only last week Peking wall posters complained that Cantonese rebels hijacked weapons from a ship bound for North Viet...
Then in came the beautiful people on four motorcycles, right into the ballroom, oozing with flower-power. It was the signal for everybody to get ready for the wedding and gather around the sanctuary, an arbor of aluminum beams and reflecting plastic panels. There came the groom, Artie, 24, carrying a guitar and wearing baggy trousers, a white, Nehru-collar tunic with red trim and cowboy boots. "My wedding suit. Nancy made it," he beamed. And there came the bride, Nancy, 15, her long blonde hair glistening, silver braces on her teeth (she'll take them off next year...