Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympics had the skirts worn by female artists and Biennale camp followers been so spectacularly brief. Alas, they were almost the only spectaculars on view. Gone altogether were the champagne gaiety, the busy art politicking and the horde of wealthy patrons who normally flock to the chic pre-opening parties in the palazzos along the Grand Canal. Instead, the opening of the 34th Venice Biennale had become a social and artistic shambles. This dubious achievement was yet another milestone in this spring's overlong marathon of student rebellion...
Most of Harvard's remaining professors found themselves understandably pre-occupied with the war. Charles Townsend Copeland might continue his annual poetry readings in Emerson Hall, but Pitirim Sorokin abandoned purely academic pursuits to perfect and publicize his plan for world peace--national sovereignty, he believed, had to be sacrificed for a world government with a monopoly of force...
While the results of the competition .did nothing to challenge male pre-eminence in Bach, they did indicate that the ladies, whose number has included such superb stylists as Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck, may know something about Bach's music that men don't. Contest Founder-President Raissa Tselentis does not go so far as to say that Bach, the father of 20 children, was not a manly composer. But she does suggest that "we women tend to be more spiritual. It is the spiritual side of women that responds to Bach...
...occurs on the very first page, when Leo suffers a heart attack onstage. From then on, the reader must bear with him through a convalescence plagued by interminable flashbacks. There is a Harlem boyhood that includes an incestuous homosexual interlude with his older brother. This is followed by a pre-hippie East Village adolescence during which Leo begins to forge a lasting black-brother, white-sister relationship with Barbara King, a Kentucky-born actress. And finally comes the highly satisfactory love affair with Christopher, a natty young militant black cat. The most important thematic progression to be noted in this...
Winfield is pre-med. Tom Williamson, star safety on the football team, plans to be a legal services lawyer, "a base for becoming a lobbyist for poor people." Bobby Johnson, swingman for the basketbal squad, thinks he'd like to go into psychiatry to study the "irrationality of racism...