Word: hums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a sociologist, "started to be simply a comic novel. I think now it was the manifesto of which The Joy of Sex commences the implementation." To have read Come Out to Play is like having witnessed an apple fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head: a ho-hum incident at the time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before the advent of Masters and Johnson, it is a fine instance...
...There's a hum on this street," says Sandy Dennis, looking down a line of lighted marquees in the heart of Broadway, "a feeling of encouragement that hasn't been around for a long, long time." Dennis is starring in Absurd Person Singular, her first Broadway hit in ten years. Her success, along with the return of several other top actors, marks an unexpected renaissance of Broadway. After years of frustration over a Great White Way beset by urban squalor, rocketing costs and deserting audiences, Broadway is enjoying the kind of lively season that seemed to have disappeared...
...sight that greeted the curators of Milan's Gallery of Modern Art one morning last week looked like another ho-hum piece of conceptual art: 28 picture frames lying flat on the parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace...
...night hordes of cicadas hum an even note for a few minutes, stop abruptly as though gasping for breath, and then continue at the same pitch. I have never heard so many cicadas in a densely built area...
...this year deal, respectively, with Portugal and the literature of Spanish-speaking nations. Twenty years ago there were also six lower-level Humanities courses. But rarely if ever was the material covered in each limited to a single nation, culture or epoch. In one year alone, one could find Hum 1. Humanism in the West; Hum 2. Epic and the Novel; Hum 3. Crisis and the Individual i] In Drama and Biography, ii] In History and Fiction; Hum 4. Good and Evil in Western Literature; Hum 5. Ideas of Man and the World in Western Thought; and Hum...