Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins when Zorba approaches a young English writer, (Allan Bates) who is on his way to Crete to look after a mine left him by his father. Zorba pleads with the lad to hire him as an assistant, and Bates unfortunately does. They conclude a pact in true Faustian style...
...next two and a half hours, Zorba directs his master on a plunge to utter ruin. First, Zorba causes the mine to cave in. Next Zorba plays pimp and pushes Bates into a love affair with a local peasant woman. Her violent death at the hands of her fellow villagers soon ends the affair...
...minutes before his performance. "He takes all dat time to get ready to dance? Me-I start in cold." Fascinated, Jimmy whispered: "He's got awful long hair, too. Dat ain't a wig, is it? He's got a big nose-not as big as mine, but a big nose gets da goils every time...
Died. Francis Adams Cherry, 56, a former Arkansas Governor (1953-55), chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who led the probe of the once powerful International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, in 1961 found it Communist-infiltrated; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...unbelieving friend of mine, who levels charges of "cultural dualism" at Cambridge folksingers, spreads a story of the night Rush came through the Leverett House dining room (he did not live off-campus) and someone called out, "There goes Tom Rush in his $20 workshirt...