Word: laing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even refused to let Andorra's 16-man militia fire a welcoming fusillade. The hundreds of stores that have transformed Andorra from a smugglers' paradise into Europe's largest duty-free shopping center were shuttered; the Tricolor was hoisted over the village-capital of Andorra la Vella. De Gaulle's aides reminded anyone who cared to listen that le grand Charles was, after all, the most important visitor to Andorra since his namesake Charlemagne passed through eleven centuries ago on his way back from battling the Moors...
...songs by some of today's greatest poet-musicians, most of whom are actually-and inaccurately-typecast as rock singers: McCartney and Lennon's Eleanor Rigby, Paul Simon's Dangling Conversation, and Tim Hardin's If You Were a Carpenter. But a French song, titled La Colombe (The Dove), provides the most haunting impact, for it is a beautifully put plaint against the slaughter of wars...
...America Response. Minutes after the attack started, nearly every American officer was either wounded or dead. Among the dead was the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Terry de la Mesa Allen Jr., 38, whose father had commanded the Big Red One in its World War II drive from Tunisia to Sicily. At a temporary base camp one mile away, the battalion operations officer heard the firefight and hesitated not a moment. With the agility that made him an All-America end at West Point in 1954, Major Donald W. Holleder, 33, raced toward the furious action and rallied a group...
...meaning committing oneself to Christ and Christian values but standing apart from any specific church. Both ex-priests intend to follow an independent path. Kavanaugh, who has technically been on leave from his diocese, will continue to serve as a marriage counselor at the nonsectarian Human Resources Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Davis is now a $16,000-a-year Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada...
...La Scala struck a magnificently old-fashioned note at Expo. In this age of realistic music-drama, far-out staging and intellectual musical analysis, La Scala's reaffirmation of the Italian faith in the power of positive vocalizing was both quaint and oddly persuasive. The company may never fully awake from dreams of its own past glory, but the question is, does anyone really want...