Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commendable-and an impossibility. There is probably not even one so-called New Leftist who possesses all, or even most, of the beliefs you attribute to them. There are doubtless many members of this amorphous but growing segment of U.S. society, who, for example, have never even heard of Bob Dylan; there are certainly some who never "sing, when in doubt"; and there are many more than you have indicated who have made it to middle age and past...
...fashionable to call Norman Mailer the bad boy of American literature and leave it at that. The underground stories about him circulate, and the incidents he provokes have become legend. Who has not heard about his poetry reading at the 92nd St. YMHA in New York, when officials rang down the curtain during a performance for the first time in twenty years? Or his nomination of Hemingway for President? Or his own candidacy for Mayor of New York? Or his belief that plastic causes cancer? Mailer, the cynics say, is "paceless, tasteless, and graceless...
Judge Charles I. Taylor sent the case to the next higher court -- Suffolk Superior -- where, he said, Baird could begin to test the constitutionality of Massachusetts' birth control laws. The case will be heard June 5, Baird was arrested at Boston University last month after he handed out birth control devices to students. He also violated Massachusetts law here by explicitly describing birth control methods in a speech at Lowell Lecture Hall, although he was not arrested at that time...
...afflicted with asthma and rue, crossed the border into Mexico. He had declared a journalist's interest in the Mexican revolution and planned to seek out Pancho Villa. Around Christmas Day that year, he sent a letter home from Chihuahua City. It was the last that anyone heard from Ambrose Bierce. He vanished...
Rhoden Streeter works too hard at Puck. He is too often heard gasping supreme ecstasy and his "Lord, what fools they mortals be," is, like the rest of his part, produced with excess force. Towards the end of the play he relaxes more than he should and falls to a cheerless drone...