Word: haircutting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gravel road followed by hot and cold showers. Though neither an outstanding student nor athlete, he mixes well, and his public image is that of a healthy boy with a mop of hair that defies comb and brush. When it was suggested that he has a Beatle's haircut, His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, heir apparent to the British throne, grinned and said, "You mean the Beatles have a Prince Charles...
...rotter school teacher is Mr. Holbrook," wrote the daring student. "He is a tramp. He needs a wash and a haircut and a new shirt and he has a big head and beady eyes." The description delighted English Teacher David Holbrook. Only a few months before, the "bottom-stream" British schoolboy of 14 was barely articulate. Now, flaunting a new-found power with words, he groped toward understanding the mystery that transforms murky thoughts into vivid language...
...averted, there are enough mad puns and sight gags and individual comedy bits to throw any Beatlemaniac into spasms of joy. Spoofing press conferences, the Beatles give every banal question the answer it deserves: "How did you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland." "What do you call that haircut?" "Arthur...
...spearhead of the civil rights fight. He saw federal action on civil rights through a haze of fact and legend about the Reconstruction imposed from the North. He never appreciated the imperative need for legal sanction of a Negro's right to sit at a bar, get a haircut, swim in a pool. He only vaguely realized that civil rights legislation provides many a Southerner of good will the excuse to accept-quietly, if not graciously-what cannot be avoided...
...upcoming tests of the civil rights bill would be as trouble-free as young Eugene Young's haircut. But a reassuring note was struck by Georgia's Representative Charles Weltner, who turned to his Southern colleagues on the House floor and said: "I would urge that we now move on to the unfinished task of building a new South. We must not remain forever bound to another lost cause...