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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodian border, blacks register their complaints as a group. Tanks fly black flags. At Danang, Black Power Leader Ron Karenga's followers have designed a flag: red for the blood shed by Negroes in Viet Nam and at home, black for the face of black culture, and green for youth and new ideas. Crossed spears and a shield at the center signify "violence if necessary," and a surrounding wreath "peace if possible" between blacks and whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: BLACK POWER IN VIET NAM | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

Schaap had no intention of becoming a latter-day Dumas when he agreed to edit the tape-recorded diary of a professional football player in early 1967. But when that exercise resulted in Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer, breaking sales records for a sports book (over 2,000,000 copies in print), Schaap took to buying his recording tape wholesale and signed up a whole new bibliography of authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsbooks: The Schaap Shop | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

Sistine Chapel. In 1960, a patch of green moldlike substance was discovered in a section called the Hall of Bulls (named for the lO-ft.-high creatures on its walls). The patch spread rapidly, and similar growths began to crop up elsewhere. This mysterious maladie verte so distressed French Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux, an amateur archaeologist himself, that he appointed a commission of archaeologists, speleologists and other savants to save France's "prehistoric Sistine Chapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Saving the Cave Paintings | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

EXAMS. The Spaulding Slaughter has now given way to the Crumgold Finesse, originated by the late Miles Crumgold, Harry and Bill Green Professor of World History. It was Dr. Crumgold's custom to warn his students well in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a " toughie. " As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would-in a burst of charity-pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabbages and Kings DeLoon's Guide | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...hors d'oeuvres. As the guests seat themselves at the banquet, their hostess urinates in a silver chamber pot. Slaves stumble over garbage-strewn floors bearing trays of delicacies from some gastronomic apocalypse: a white calf wearing a brass helmet, cows' udders aswim in a mucid green sauce. It is a picnic in the best traditions of ancient Rome and Federico Fellini, designed and executed for Satyricon, his first full-length film in four years. It may be the most glorious bacchanal in the history of the cinema. At its opening last week at the Venice Film Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Directors: Petronius, 20%; Fellini, 80% | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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