Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drinkers were few; the majority of the young and not so young behaved as well as they danced ineptly. When one exuberant youth started to steal a lantern as the party dissolved into the rainy dawn, his girl deftly doused him with the teenagers' squelch supreme: "How immature...
...mystic world. His life was plagued by occult phenomena (poltergeists threw his books about; blinding pain awakened him at the instant a patient was committing suicide), and his dreams even came to include flying saucers. In the morning he would ponder: perhaps the flying saucer is a magic lantern, and I-I am only the picture it projects...
Morath's bowdlerized ragtime first appeared on a television show called The Ragtime Era, for the National Educational Television Center. Morath now has 15 half-hour shows, Turn of the Century, in which he mixes snatches of cultural his tory into a formula of songs, monologues and lantern slides. A thin, volatile man, he usually noodles out the music first on the piano, then talks about the men who wrote it and of the day when ragtime was the "folk music of the city...
Actually, a recent visit to New York reveals that the natives are subsisting on rather meager fare. A group of young businessmen are putting out the New York Standard, a puerile sheet that appears to be a cross between the Ohio State Lantern and the Hadassah News Letter. The Newark News, a more than adequate paper, has stopped shipping papers to the city because it loses money on them. A few other second-rate newspapers drift in but they aren't much help...
...Whiteside suggested that we leave that until later, going first to the dehydration rooms. "Better take off your jacket;" he grinned, "it's pretty hot where we're going." We were taken into a very large room with grotesque orange lighting that made us look like a jack o'lantern. We noticed several conveyor belts passing into and out of the room through openings in the walls. Mr. Whiteside pointed out that it was unbearably hot, and we agreed that it was with little hesitation. These are infra-red heating lamps," he told us, "temperature of 88 degrees. Dehumidifiers keep...