Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pan, Clavell...
STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT (Reprise). Frank Sinatra knows every nook and cranny of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, as many of bands (Strangers in the Night, All or at All) on his latest LP amply demonstrate. But Dad should leave Downtown's rock 'n' roll to the kids...
...Pan, Clavell...
...artists who sought to enshrine her, none had such means to match her genius as Rodin. Even their first meeting was Olympian. "My pilgrimage to Rodin," she recalled, "resembled that of Psyche seeking the God Pan in his grotto, only I was not asking the way to Eros, but to Apollo. He showed his works with the simplicity of the very great." The aging sculptor returned her admiration with a passion, sketched Isadora and her pupils countless times, once sighed: "If only I could have had models like this when I was younger." Isadora responded in kind: "What a pity...
...World War II combat veteran, is very likely the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts. The Troy of his hilarious Iliad is a wine-producing village in southern Italy, a town so poor in everything, including fertilizer, that its inhabitants stalk oxen with a broom and a pan. The Hector of the tale is the village mayor, a paisano whose native cunning has been reinforced by the study of Machiavelli. The Agamemnon of the story is a German captain assigned to rob the village of its only precious possession: 1,320,000 bottles of vermouth...