Word: po
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within the year, Lin and fellow Red army marshals-Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai-had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had proved victorious over the enemy, which outnumbered the Reds 2 to 1. Then, like some ghostly hero whose legends demand his presence only in times of great crisis, Lin Piao dropped from prominence...
...earnest, though not always men leapt up to supply them. Paul Simon (Garfunkel's partner) gives us lines freshly fallen silent shroud of snow," important, he gives us his own self-image: "A poet with a one-man band." "I have my bo--oks/And my po--e--try to protect me, he says. Mick Jagger write a 7-stress line Off My Cloud" and resuscitates the blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin' Spoonful "jump-cut" provocatively among narratives, and interrogatives; such lively imagination no-one demanded or would have appreciated a few years...
Overnight, thousands of stickers were stuck on the walls of Manhattan's men's rooms: HAVE YOU SEEN FANNY? Po lice found a statue of a nude woman-Fanny's belly dancer-set up in the Poets' Corner in Central Park. "A wealthy Turk" (who hasn't been seen since) informed the press that he wanted to buy the belly dancer from Merrick for $2,000,000 and take her back to Istanbul. TV and radio broke out with a rash of spot commercials selling Fanny, Fanny, Fanny. Logan himself directed scenes from the play that were presented...
...French army had fought seven years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...
...east of Suez (TIME, Nov. 19). Johnson, for his part, will invite British cooperation in providing an alternative to the proposed NATO multilateral force (MLF) of missile-firing surface ships, a plan that sank under the weight of allied disagreement. Johnson hopes instead that Britain will turn over its Po laris submarines, now abuilding, to a new NATO nuclear force to be operated jointly on a shared-cost basis as a kind of deep-down...