Word: pacificism
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And once you have found South Pacific (1958), never let it go. Sure it's hokey. But old people really seem to like it. So give it a go.
AUSTIN, Texas: The wide world, she has lost a lover. For his 90 years James Michener wandered the globe; for 50, he wrote about it. Michener's books were stuffed suitcases, covered with postmarks, full of cultures and natives and lives about which his readers wanted to dream. All the...
James Albert Michener was an orphan, adopted from the Bucks County, Pa. poorhouse by Mabel Michener, a Quaker widow. From there to Swarthmore, to the Navy, and then to Japan, making a hometown - and a novel - of every place he stopped. "Tales of the South Pacific" was his first, born...
PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.--With such 1970s hits as "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads," John Denver was a wholesome, wire-rimmed hippie who turned out sunny music for cynical times.
JOHN DENVER is dead at 53 after his single-engined plane plummeted into the Pacific Ocean near Salinas, California on Sunday. The cause of the crash, so far, is a mystery. But the tragic demise of a one-of-a-kind musician begs a semi-serious cultural question: Why was...