Word: greats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to have to take my children back to the cold of England," she says. Whatever her plans, she will have some money at last. Australian Consolidated Press is paying $78,400 for the story of how her husband's ill-gotten gains from the great train robbery were quickly drained...
...satisfying the human need for reassurance, rumor plays a role that truth not always can. It goes through three distinct stages. In the first, the fact content is reduced, partly because of the porosity of human memory, partly because of man's inclination to simplify. The Great Blackout of 1965 was a cause of countless rumors; some people immediately assumed that it was the result of a Communist sabotage plot; others believed that it was an unannounced air-raid test by the U.S. Government. In the next stage, the rumormonger accents certain parts of the story that appeal...
Disquieting Quiet. Juilliard has always been known for looking at music with a coldly practical eye. "We want only the really great talents coming to the school," says President Peter Mennin. "Entrance exams will be tougher, the curriculum will be tightened. We're sending students out into a hard professional life...
Inevitably, the homosexual life has attracted eager entrepreneurs. A firm in Great Neck, N.Y., runs a computer-dating service for homosexuals; San Francisco's Adonis bookstore has some 360 different magazines on display that carry everything from lascivious photos of nude men to reports on the homophile movement and lovelorn advice by "Madame Soto-Voce." Police and homosexuals agree that operating a gay bar is still an occupation that often appeals to Mafiosi. In New York City, sleazy movie houses along Broadway now match their traditional offerings of cheesecake with "beefcake...
...blow my own horn, but I do think I'm as guilty as anybody." As the anti-anti-anti-hero of Calvin Trillin's collection of short, softly hilarious, episodic New Yorkerish misadventures, Barnett jousts for Rosalie's attention in the culture jungle of the great city, raising a series of rumpled expectations all doomed to failure...