Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ford to the sandstone foundation of a vanished cabin. A man named Henry Welty, the author recalls, built the cabin and bred children and cattle there successfully until one night in 1863 he was slaughtered and scalped by Comanches. Dammed-up river water will deprive Welty's ghost of its local habitation, if not its name, and that is part of the point of Graves's book. Scrub-country legends are worth knowing, as is the country itself, its game and its rivers. So, too, is the solitude replacing the loneliness of the first night's camp...
...darkly cloistered interiors-was done in some of the most living color ever seen on television. It was well directed by George Schaefer, who made restrained but effective use of the advantages of film: for the forest-concealed murder of Banquo; for an electronically superimposed vision of his ghost, whose airy lack of substance helped direct attention away from the supernatural and into Macbeth's mind; for the approach of troops, siege ladders, battering rams, and Birnam wood itself to Dunsinane...
...American West, which has never been more eloquently described in melody than in I Talk to the Trees from Paint Your Wagon. He is sometimes accused of being derivative, but this is rarely the case. Preparing for Wagon, as Singer David Brooks recalls it, Lerner played a record of Ghost Riders in the Sky for Fritz over and over again, then Loewe sent one more ghost into the air and a far better one by writing his superb They Call the Wind Maria. "I never try to write a hit song." he says. "If you do, it is always silly...
Christian L. O'Hiri, who scored two goals as a center forward for Nigeria at Rome last summer, was captain of his team at Holy Ghost College in Oweiri, Nigeria. He was also captain for three years of the town team in Oweiri...
Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, presided, while the ghost of Burgoyne was such a well-behaved and rational enlightenment ghost that nobody noticed...