Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like a ghost out of his own past, the frail Russian prince sat in a darkened Manhattan courtroom and watched a TV re-enactment of one of history's most famous assassinations-the 1916 murder of Rasputin, the lecherous monk who held Svengalian power over the Czar and Czarina. Then the lights went on, and Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the man who did the deed, now a 78-year-old Parisian, got down to business-his $1,500,000 suit against the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy...
...with a healthy majority of 8,855 votes, and would probably endorse a Laborite again. But thanks to the election of new Conservative Leader Ted Heath, and Labor's harsh anti-inflationary measures, the latest Gallup poll puts the Tories 7% ahead of Labor. There is just a ghost of a chance that a Tory might capture Dodds's seat, reducing Wilson's majority to a grand total...
...family, to continue the metaphor, is an unhappy bunch. Jane Addams is Mother in her youth, struggling to forge a synthesis of culture and politics-elements that for another generation were efficiently joined in religion. Her father's ghost keeps advocating piety without religious belief, so Jane, while touring Europe, throws up culture as not worth the price and conceives Hull House, the exemplary instance of human relations saturated with politics. Randolph Bourne is a lamentably deformed younger son who seeks to regain his identity at the neighbors' soirees in Greenwich village, but "to his dismay, he discovered that...
This version of heaven was the Marlboro Festival, an event that for 15 years has been attracting an international group of artists to an 18th century ghost town in the shadow of Vermont's Mount Hogback. The festival began when the trustees of tiny (128 students) Marlboro College offered its campus to some of its musical neighbors, most celebrated among them Pianist Rudolf Serkin. In the years since, Serkin has made the festival a center where outstanding soloists, chamber players and orchestral musicians come together for eight summer weeks to work and study in an atmosphere far removed from...
...painful, reclusive silence, Author J. D. Salinger, 46, has produced another story. It's no Catcher in the Rye or Franny and Zooey-just one more refraction through his magic Glasses in the form of a letter that Seymour Glass, the fictional family's presiding guru and ghost, wrote home from Camp Hapworth, Maine, at the tender age of seven. Published in The New Yorker, the note is introduced briefly by Family Historian Buddy Glass, who for years has been garrulously obsessed by the memory of his suicide brother. By the letter, Childe Seymour seems to have been...