Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Movement. He also declared that his efforts to collect research for a new book called October 1916 were handicapped by officials. "You Westerners cannot imagine my situation," he said. "I live in my own country; I write a novel about Russia. But it is as hard for me to gather material as if I were writing about Polynesia...
Vivid Warning. Yet when Maurits Escher died last month, aged 73, a cult had begun to gather round him. Through many channels, from head-shop posters to science magazines, Escher had been insinuated into world currency. A lavish book, The Complete World of M.C. Escher, will shortly be published by Abrams. This week an almost complete exhibition of his graphics opens at the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco, where the prints Escher sold for $ 17 to $40 two decades ago are being offered...
...your basic Red-blooded Post-war American Kid might find for himself yet another way out. He might gather his speculations, justifications, and laughter and yearn simply for the good old days before moon landings and relevance...
Connally may well be in charge of the negotiations for reform all the way through. He complained last week that responsibility for the nation's foreign economic policy is scattered throughout many Government bodies, and he is obviously seeking to gather all the decision-making power into his Treasury office. He is particularly annoyed at the diffusion of power over trade policy, which he wants reformed in parallel negotiations. There are rumors that he will become Secretary of State if President Nixon is reelected. Such a switch probably would only mean that Connally would decide foreign economic policy while...
...that mild formula of sterectypes, gimmicks, and murder which Ms. Christie always feeds her readers. This one dates from the mid-forties and, more often than not, acts its age: On a desolate island cut off both from England's mainland and its sense of fair play eight strangers gather for a holiday. Their host, they learn, is delayed in London. As the guests introduce themselves, a ghostly voice breaks in to accuse each one of a specific murder. It even throws in one for the butler and his wife, the cook...