Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full of the mock-solemn high jinks that Art Professor Kaprow, Sculptor Charles Frazier and CBS Producer Gordon Hyatt were concocting. The point, explained Kaprow, was to have a plan, but no rehearsal, no separation of audience and spectators. Just pick a theme, arrange the setting, and let things happen. For the Hamptons' Happening, which was to go on for three days, the theme was "Gas," in part because Kaprow & Co. intended to use a lot of helium for balloons...
...town dump near Springs, another artists' outpost, where the suds spewed forth once again so that all the children could have a good wallow. "The silliest thing I ever saw," exclaimed one horrified mother. But not all agreed. "A blast-out of sight. I wish it could happen every day," said one teenager. It probably won't. The tab for the three-day Happening, with the cost of filming, was nearly $30,000-a fairly inflationary sum to pay for such...
...flatly that this will not happen, but it seems unlikely. After the 1966 elections are over in November, the Johnson Administration can be expected to take a more definite stance on fiscal policy; this should put an end to some of the uncertainty that has been depressing the market. Moreover, many investors feel that the blue chips have gone down by about as much as they ever will. Take the testimony of Judson Sayre, retired vice president of Borg, Warner, who now spends his time investing for himself in a quiet office in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. Sayre has done...
...Your story was very comforting to me even though I'm still 21. It has given me back my future, dispelling the fear that everything had to happen here and now. How about another one in 20 years on the glories...
Locals lounging about the Grand-Place of the Belgian town of Chièvres-hardly grand and barely a place-stared sullenly as the cavalcade of black limousines and a police escort swirled up. "Things like that don't happen much around here," allowed one, "so we figured that it must be that Chape [Walloon dialect for SHAPE] thing again." It was. NATO's General Lyman Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was hunting new quarters...