Word: organizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like wolves in winter, the circle of Communist critics tightened around brash young Poet Evgeny Evtushenko last week. The Kremlin announced a full meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee next month to discuss "ideological" matters-meaning the crackdown on Evtushenko and other maverick intellectuals. The official organ of the Moscow Writers Union, Literaturnaya Rossiya, backed a reader's suggestion that Evtushenko be thrown out of the union-a move that would reduce the high-living poet to poverty, since state publishing houses would no longer accept his work. Even Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin joined the wolf pack snarling...
Schippers enriched his private memorial by playing the Poulenc Concerto for Organ in G Minor just before the perform ance of the Sept Répons. Having transferred keyboard notes to the foot pedals, he freed an arm for conducting, and with only one slip (a missed orchestral entry), he played with brilliant drive. The massive, 5,000-pipe organ overwhelmed the string orchestra, but Schippers coaxed out of the instrument all the music's high glories...
...Carnegie Hall, that Manhattan temple of classical music, an organ began bombilating a very unclassical tune, and the audience burst into collective song...
Plenty of Zing. While the farmers were still thumping each other's backs, a spotlight picked up the evening's star performer, striding down a side aisle. The organ abruptly switched to that old Democratic anthem, Happy Days Are Here Again, and onto the stage bounded Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. The farmers cheered, whistled and clapped...
...first prawn mating ever witnessed by man. "The ritual is truly bewitching," he reported. "The male prawn first chases the female; then she molts, or undresses for him. The male next embraces the naked female, and she. in somewhat brutal fashion, absorbs his sex organ entirely, breaking it off. He is incapacitated until he grows...