Word: mops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because he is small (5 ft. 6 in.), mop-haired and young (19), Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim sometimes resembles a rebellious child who would rather be playing baseball than fondling the keys. Playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra last week on a U.S. tour that opened with a triumphant appearance in New York, he swiveled around in moments of inaction and regarded the orchestra's string section with an intensity so fierce that it seemed ready to wither the first violinists. But Barenboim's dis concerting mannerisms are only the mark of an extra-attentive and highly sensitive...
...Gimmick." Of all the funny-paper freedom fighters, none is more dogged than Harold L. Gray's 38-year-old Orphan Annie, a mop-haired moppet who has empty circles for eyes* and a bald, dinner-jacketed billionaire for a foster father. Last month, Annie and her Daddy Warbucks were holed up on a tropical island somewhere just off the map. Suddenly "enemy" planes appeared, carrying H-bombs. But Daddy and his pals were forearmed. Using what he calls his "ray gimmick," Daddy exploded the H-bombs prematurely, atomizing the attackers...
...seasons ago, when the Eli trio of Howe, Hetherington, and West (Tinker to Evers to Chance) came of age, it was generally said that Yale would mop up the league for the next three years. Brought up in the Philadelphia Marion Cricket Club, these three were already the top ranking juniors. And reports were that Yale was just as tough all the way down the squash ladder...
...Yellowley, 88, nemesis of Prohibition-era bootleggers, a Mississippi-born revenooer who harried the Capone mob with the aid of "The Untouchables," blazed a trail of shut speakeasies from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., but lost heart in New York, admitting that it would take a million agents to mop the metropolis dry; of a heart attack; in Chicago...
...though Elvis Presley at his prime had challenged Cardinal Spellman to a theology debate on NBC. For in England, mop-haired Adam Faith, 21, is the current king of rock, and last week he argued religion for half an hour on BBC-TV with the Most Rev. Frederick Donald Coggan, 52, Anglican Archbishop of York. Faith proved rather more than the archbishop had bargained...