Word: lode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer & Torches. At the opposite pole, antiwar groups finally feel that they have tapped a rich lode of pacifism in the U.S. public. Agencies to aid draft evaders dot the nation like acne. The "Viet Nam Summer" movement, largely sponsored by a group of Harvard professors, has rung doorbells in 46 states urging political action to end the war. From Ann Arbor to Boston and in 13 other communities, it has tried to get antiwar resolutions onto the ballots for this fall's municipal elections...
Gardner, in The Goodbye People, will be mining Broadway's newest mother lode: the cold war between generations. In Peter Ustinov's Halfway Up the Tree, a parent, Anthony Quayle, hopes to prove himself hipper than the kids. The same goes for Jean Arthur, back onstage at 61, in Richard Chandler's The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake. A household mutiny is also the theme of Keep It in the Family, a London import featuring Maureen O'Sullivan. Another West End hit making the passage: Terence Frisby's There's a Girl...
...rich is the mother lode of Italian art that four different generations of American collectors have mined it without too much duplication. Pioneer Jarves, whose collection was eventually auctioned off to cover his debts and bought by Yale for a bargain $22,000, is represented in the CRIA exhibit by a Sienese wood panel Annunciation, by Francesco di Giorgio and Neroccio dei Landi. The precise taste of turn-of-the-century Railway Heir Henry Walters is illustrated by the three exquisitely patinaed bronzes lent by the Walters Art Gallery, in Baltimore, which he founded. The spirit of J. P. Morgan...
...stock swap, Boise Cascade acquired Indianapolis' U.S. Land Inc., which thrives by building artificial lakes in northern Virginia or California's Mother Lode country, then selling the land around them for residential and resort use. With the purchase, Boise Cascade became the nation's most thoroughly integrated company in the housing field...
...entreporneurs of Grove Press have at last struck real pay dirt, the anti-Comstock lode of lewd literature. It should make queasy readers reach for their Turns, which as everybody knows, is smut spelled backward...