Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orchestrated expression of the great affection, respect, admiration and esteem in which I hold the distinguished minority leader. I would weave with words a magic spell over the Senate as he has done so many times. With words, I would lift the eyes of the Senators to the mountain peaks and the stars beyond, or I would lead them gently down a rustic road in Illinois. With words, I would lay bare the heart of a flower or pry open the fiery core of the atom that the Senate might appreciate the depth and breadth of the Senator from Illinois...
...Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states, where Kennedy got shut out in 1960, the Democratic prospects appear dubious. If Richard Nixon were to unseat Pat Brown as California's Governor, there might be a brand-new presidential ball-game...
Accordingly, some 1962-63 shows have been holding their tryouts pretty far afield. The Perfect Set-Up, a comedy by Jack Sher about a Manhattan businessman whose wife and mistress are both contented girls, opens next month in Phoenix and will skip around among cities in the middle, mountain and far western states before opening on Broadway Oct. 24. All sorts of shows will be pussyfooting through the recently discovered Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto belt. Oliver!, English Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart's musical based on Oliver Twist, has already begun its U.S. tryout in Los Angeles; it opens in Manhattan...
Ambitions & Tensions. The nature of his ecclesiastical position and the history of his tiny country (4,015 sq. mi., 1,600,000 pop.) necessarily make Patriarch Meouchi a political figure. A proud mountain people who preserved their Christian faith through centuries of Arab persecution, the Maronites regard the patriarchy as a symbol of their national ambitions...
...recording and hopping about the U.S. and Europe that he rarely has time to sit down to listen to his collection of classical records. The secret, he says, is to play the way you feel: "If I felt like climbing, I'd sound like I was climbing a mountain...