Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter Gropius it was his 85th birthday. He grabbed hands and grinned his way through 300 friends and fans all wearing flourescent orange and day-glo green buttons reading "Vote Grope...
...CHERRY ORCHARD. Uta Hagen leads the APA in a gentle and balanced production of Chekhov's commentary on the sad absurdity of human beings who, unable to adapt themselves to the changes of history, grope about in a half-light that may be twilight and may be dawn. Pantagleize, The Show Off and Exit the King round out the repertory...
...make school make sense to them." But the problem of high school violence reaches far beyond the classroom. It involves the rising frustration of life in the cities and the agitation of self-seeking adults demanding black (or white) power-compounded by the turmoil within teenagers as they grope toward maturity...
...years ago, a Scandinavian composer proclaimed: "I believe in Bach, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, and absolute music." Carl Nielsen? At the mention of the Danish composer's name, most non-Scandinavians could only look blank or grope for their music dictionaries. Nielsen's reputation in his homeland had been supreme since his death in 1931 at 66, but unlike his Finnish contemporary Jean Sibelius, he was a nobody in the European and especially the U.S. music world...
...Bible says Thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness.' One feels occasionally that for us it is that kind of noonday." Thus, in a speech at the University of North Carolina last week, John Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, articulated the Administration's concern at the rancorous tone that is now so pervasive in America. "More and more," said Gardner, "hostility and venom are the hallmarks of any conversation on the affairs of the nation...