Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting popular in Cambridge at last. Geoff Muldaur is Maria's husband (or maybe ex-) and a holdover from the early-sixties folk scene; according to popular legend, when he was a teenager he hitchhiked from Boston to East Texas with a broom to sweep off the grave of an obscure early bluesman. In any event, he used to perform in a duo with Maria but since her recent success she seems to have left him to fend for himself. Watson is certainly worth going to see on his own, and Muldaur could be a pleasant surprise. July...
...situation was so grave that the familiar script of revolving-door governments had a surprising variation this time. After the parties that made up the center-left government of Premier Mariano Rumor-Socialists, Social Democrats and Rumor's own Christian Democrats-were unable to agree on economic remedies, the Premier, following tradition, offered his resignation to President Giovanni Leone. But Leone refused to let Rumor give up so easily. The situation was too grave for change, he insisted. Leone thus ordered Rumor, "in the superior interest of the country," to try to form a new government...
...Others suggested that if worse came to worst, Rumor could fall back on the old remedy for recurring summertime crises by forming a balneare (seaside) government that could run the country until the vacation season ended. The truth was, however, that Italy's situation had become too grave for bathing-suit governments. Emergency measures that only a genuine government can apply are waiting to be taken. Italy, as Dante observed almost seven centuries ago in the Purgatorio, is once again "a vessel without a pilot in a loud storm." Unless serious steps are quickly taken, it may well sink...
When the Suffolk County district attorney's office indicted two Harvard researchers April 11 for illegal fetal experimentation, it cited an 1837 statute aimed at 19th Century grave robbers. In this way, the D.A. forced the abortion issue into the open in Boston, and while the controversy raged, doctors throughout the medical area began to fear for their experiments...
...researchers, the most ominous aspect of the case, is the vagueness of the "illegal dissection" charge. What grave-robbing has to do with an experiment on fetal tissue is unclear...