Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penultimate performance, an outfit called Le Groupe Panique smashed a huge plaster reproduction of Rodin's Thinker into smithereens, spilling torrents of black ink out of plastic bags. Then, while a girl twisted the arms, legs and heads from plastic dolls, another girl stood by beatifically as a grave-faced artist shaved her groin. Later, Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoned his latest work while a naked couple made love vertically in a burlap bag, black light playing on their shoulders. "I should stop it," moaned Director Davis, "but if I do, there will be 28 times the scandal there...
...Guillermo León Valencia, the cost of living has soared 50%, the country's foreign debt has doubled to $750 million, unemployment is rising dangerously, and a wave of Castroite kidnapings has terrorized both city and countryside (TIME, March 19). Now all of these pale beside a grave new political concern. Colombia's National Front, formed in 1958 to make peace between the warring Liberal and Conservative parties, is in danger of imminent collapse...
...Wyszynski, who figures she can read as well as anyone else, immediately rushed to Used Car Dealer Joseph De Gonge in Bristol, Conn., and plunked down 25 bananas as down payment. Aghast, De Gonge demurred. Incensed, Mrs. Wyszynski appealed to the Connecticut State Department of Consumer Protection. There followed grave official words about such matters as false advertising. Last week De Gonge compromised and accepted Mrs. Wyszynski's offer-not for the banana car, but for a 1962 Pontiac Tempest that otherwise would have cost her $850. Not surprisingly, the United Fruit Co. got into the act by supplying...
...general seem to have gone from hard sell to no sell, it may be because traditional approaches to evangelism are out of date. Revival-style preaching, for example, rings hollow in the ears of educated laymen. A number of ministers who admire Billy Graham as a person have grave reservations about his "decisions for Christ" approach-the "ability in 45 minutes to bring out a latent crisis in your life, usually guilt over one sin or another," as the Rev. Stephen Rose, editor of Chicago's Renewal magazine puts...
Immortal Face. The U.S. gave Legson quite a reception, but he seems to have accepted everything that came his way with a grave and innocent equanimity. In the capital, he endured the standard tourist treatment, discovered the "sweet relationship" between waffles and syrup, stood in the Lincoln Memorial and "timidly waved at the immortal face." Skagit Valley College received him with a banner and a banquet. The family that "adopted" him had redecorated the spare bedroom. Neighbors stopped in with cakes. Huntley-Brinkley televised him. Some will pin the word "naive" on Legson's wide-eyed good will...