Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ramsey Lewis Trio, a Chicago group fashioned after the Ahmad Jamal Trio (which got top festival billing, but favored too many innovations at the expense of recognizable jazz). The trio played its progressive music with such style that it was the second night's biggest...
This summer Cheng's Methodist friends had another mystery to ponder: strange bumping noises that came out of the deserted church by night. Early one morning last week a pair of private detectives, called in by Mr. Ransom, heard a trap door to the church attic slam. Together with Ann Arbor police, they climbed up, swept their flashlights about the attic. There, crouched above them in the rafters, was Cheng...
...close to four years, according to Cheng's story, the attic had been his home. The bumping noises had been Cheng skipping rope to keep in shape. By day he had slept on the stolen padding of a church pew. By night he had prowled the church grounds, filching food from the church kitchen...
...will to live was a familiar story to Mydans: in 1940 a shrieking, clawing Chinese woman in Chungking had begged for money as she held aloft her dead infant, waving it by one foot, "like a butcher with a plucked chicken." Mydans gave her some money, and later that night, belly tight with food, Mydans came shamefully back to the spot where he. had seen her. There she sat, a bowl of white rice by her side. Something stirred at her breast. Mydans looked. It was the child-alive and suckling with contented gurglings. "Then," writes Mydans, "I understood...
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: The romantic comedies-A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor-and one romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet...