Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elsewhere, observers were not so lucky. A blanket of haze and clouds covered much of the East Coast and completely obscured the view of crowds gathered for the occasion in Manhattan's Central Park. Astronomers on a plane circling above the weather off Nantucket Island reported only about 20...
It was a disappointment to have the two choruses stand together, when some separation would have added to both the pageantry of the occasion and the musical distinctness of the two choruses. Many passages in the Vespers depend on the juxtaposition of the choruses and on a dialogue between them...
"Many experts predicted this would be Harvard's first losing season in eight years. The team rose to the occasion because everyone was willing to push themselves to the limit. Everyone was willing to pay the price of plain hard work."
"The cow," Mahatma Gandhi once said, "is a poem of pity." Last week India's sacred animal brought not pity but violence to the very doorstep of government. The occasion was a rally of 125,000 Hindus, who had come from all over India to pressure the government of...
"Burp," says the Thanksgiving Day greeting card which, with more truth than tradition in it shows Pilgrims and Indians finishing off their first feast together. "Make this a real Puritan Thanksgiving," says another. "Don't eat your turkey without dressing." With such cards for holidays and for just about...