Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribute to the great Greek spirit and love of Americans, they bedded me in one of the only standing buildings in the area and brought me a hot glass of goat's milk. In my ignorance of this unselfish (as I later learned) gift, I almost refused it because of the possibility of contracting some disease...
...late great Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, the Afternoon of a Faun was a lazy, sensual episode in the life of a mythological goat-man; he danced it (to Debussy's famed music) in horns, tail and dappled tights. Manhattan's Choreographer Jerome Robbins, 34, had a different idea. Last week the New York City Ballet presented the Robbins-version faun as a Narcissus rather than a goat-man; the title role went to a shirtless young ballet dancer in practice tights...
...audience, some of it expecting the old (and more emphatic) goat-man theme, was somewhat surprised by the innovations. But it admired the perform ance, burst into applause during one superbly turned movement, and at the end clapped until the house lights went...
Schulman denied that the firing has anything to do with the recent "piety" controversy. He noted, however, that the same people who voted to prohibit religious ceremonies in Association meetings are now supporting Wiegand. "They are using him as a 'scape-goat' to hinder my administration," he said. He said his opponents had a "sour grapes" attitude toward his election. Schulman, a "dark horse" candidate, won the presidency of the association by one vote...
Died. Dr. Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 61, popular philosopher, author (The Book of Joad, The Testament of Joad and 46 other serious-to-potboiling books), University of London professor; of cancer; in London. Puffin-shaped, goat-bearded and brilliantly voluble ("I can explain anything to anybody"), C. E. M. Joad was variously a socialist, pacifist, patriot, agnostic, advocate of free love, polygamy, euthanasia, suicide and easy divorce, and a professional carper. On scientific progress: "The superman made the plane, but the ape has got hold of it." On religion: "Why, if God so loves us, does He give us such...