Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CINEMA 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. As a spaceship plows the galactic void, Director Stanley Kubrick searches for the meaning of life 33 years from now and turns the quest into a dazzling-and demanding-cinematic experience.
Lost Meaning. Employers were also sympathetic. A Wednesday holiday was tolerable-at least to the boss, who could count on two solid days of work before and after it. But Tuesdays and Thursdays were painful. Employees looked at him reproachfully if he did not throw in the extra Monday or...
Last week, Congress finally passed a bill designed to create four permanent three-day weekends by shifting holidays to Monday. The legislators acted only after hearing testimony that proved that the dates were not really certain to begin with. Memorial Day, originally proposed in 1868 as an appointed date on...
On Capitol Hill, Rockefeller promoted "coattail power"-meaning that he can get more Republican Congressmen elected in'November than Nixon. He reminded audiences of Congressmen and Senators that in 1966 many Republicans lost tight races in urban and industrial areas, where Rocky claims great pulling power. On his lapel...
Died. Sir Herbert Read, 74, poet, critic and catholic thinker; of cancer; in Stonegrave, England. An outspoken pacifist prior to World War I, Read nonetheless joined the Royal Army in 1915, won the Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross for heroism in the trenches. He preferred the romantic poets when...