Word: organism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Dave Brubeck is featured in this performance of his original oratorio, accompanied by his combo, an organ and a 300-voice choir at Washington Cathedral...
...does not happen. The actors fake it. The uninhibited cast has reached the pitch of passion in rehearsals, but performances before an audience obviously constrict the actors. Even so, what does happen would fill an animated sex manual. Conjecture one hour and forty minutes during which each orifice and organ of the male and female body is employed in all possible combinations...
...Latin verb hiare, to yawn. The esophagus (gullet), which carries food from the mouth to the stomach, passes through a hiatus in the diaphragm, the muscular wall that divides the chest and abdominal cavities. A hernia is a rupture, or break, usually in a muscle, that permits an organ to protrude through it. A hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening at the point where the gullet goes through the diaphragm. A relatively small hernia will permit the lowest part of the gullet to slide upward into the chest, while a larger one will let part of the stomach slide...
Blood on the Border. Within the Communist world, the Soviet campaign was even more aggressive. A joint Soviet-Czech communique "emphatically condemned the recent provocative actions of the Chinese splitters, which inflict serious damage on the forces of socialism." Pravda, organ of the Soviet Communist Party, noted that Mao Tse-tung and his clique had revealed "once more the extent of their political degradation," and the Soviet press continued to bare details of the bloody Ussuri River border clash in the Far East, which, the Russians claim, cost the lives of 31 Russian frontier guards...
...Some 2,000 people-black, white and brown-are turned toward the stage, crying "Hallelujah" and "God be praised!" For more than an hour the tension has been building up. Testimonies, gospel songs, pledges, blessings, and more songs-a writhing, Presleyan, shirt-open gospel rock driven home by an organ, drums and piano combo. Women are swaying in the aisles, men clapping and shouting from their seats...