Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williams registered the first upset of the intercollegiate season Wednesday as the Ephs squeaked out a 5-4 victory over Penn, pre-season favorites for the national championship. The home court advantage gave Williams the necessary edge in an extremely close match. Harvard plays Penn at Philadelphia in February, but plays Williams at Hemenway so that if the home court remains a decisive factor, a three or even four-way fight for the national championship remains a possibility...
...block some of the $32.6 billion in imports now flowing into the U.S. That would also reverse a 35-year trend to liberalized trade -at a time the world is trading more than ever. Ultimately, the U.S. can ease its travail in trade only by increasing its productivity at home and pressing a vigorous drive to sell more abroad...
Alan Bates plays Bok-a handyman, a fixer of broken things. His home is the shtetl, a rural Jewish village in 1911 Russia. It is a time of pogroms and malignant rumors of Jews who murder Christians as part of their religious rites. Bok, possessed of a barren, faithless wife (Carol White), abandons his emotions, his conscience and his home. His destination is the ancient Russian Orthodox city of Kiev, where he promptly sends himself to hell by passing as a gentile. In scenes that seem to have emerged from the mainstream of Russian literature, Lebedev (Hugh Griffith), a rabid...
Arriving at Turpin's home in a storm, Mandeville, an obvious drunkard and possible psychotic, demands that Turpin circumcise Mandeville's golden retriever. The subsequent brutal murder of the dog is but the beginning of a series of bizarre deaths in which Turpin naturally becomes entrapped. Verbally shanghaied aboard an expensive yacht, Turpin finds himself in Raceport, Long Island, where he grapples with a girl who promptly chokes to death on a wad of chewing gum. Nelson Falorp, wealthy owner of the yacht, has a heart attack in the bathroom of a wharf restaurant, and Turpin becomes responsible...
During the Truman and early Eisenhower years, his countrymen had been preoccupied with communists, whom they battled abroad and burned at home. The question of race was a quiet one. But beginning in December, 1955, with the Montgomery bus boycott, black frustrations burgeoned; certainly the Sixties would see an explosive showdown...