Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues," said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side. "Back in my day, the people didn't know nothing else to do but cry. They couldn...
By curtain time on opening night in Brussels, almost everything connected with the new opera seemed to have gone wrong. Less than a month before, Composer-Librettist-Director Gian Carlo Menotti was still frantically writing Act III when he put Act I into rehearsal. In the last hours he found...
In other centuries the cathedral was a proper symbol. "It was needed to dominate, even in the physical sense, by the employment of the mass and bulk and the arrogance of towers commanding the landscape-less to spy out the political enemy than to cow the underlings. The lacy frivolity...
The first market corner in several decades occurred on Wall Street and caught short sellers in a classic trap-without stock to deliver unless they paid fantastic prices. The corner was nothing like those when Morgan and Harriman battled for the Northern Pacific, gobbling up so much stock that shorts...
Philip Morris (Parliament, Marlboro) and Lorillard (Kent, Old Gold) test all cigarettes down to a bare inch of butt. Other companies criticize this system because it produces higher tar yields for longer cigarettes. Another argument rages over what to report. American Tobacco measures "total solids" in smoke. Competitors have found...