Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gale of protest aroused by the encyclical. In a mid-week audience at Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence, Paul told an audience of pilgrims something of the personal agony that had accompanied his decision. "Never before," he said, "have we felt the load of our duty. We have studied, read, discussed as much as we could. And we have also prayed a lot. How many times have we had the impression of being almost submerged by this heap of documents? How many times have we realized the inadequacy of our poor person to the formidable obligation of pronouncing ourselves...
While publishers can and do print anything these days without much fear of censorship, the question of what kind of books schoolchildren should be permitted to read arouses as much rancor and righteousness as ever. Some prudes are shocked that students should be exposed to the earthy bawdiness of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Negroes protest the "Uncle Tomism" of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn; reactionaries worry about left-wing interpretations in history texts. According to a recent survey by the National Education Association, 334 books on class reading lists or in school libraries were singled out for criticism...
Chandler's daily composition-he gets Saturday and Sunday off, barring a major newsbreak-takes him about two hours. Once, on deadline at the time of Helen Keller's death, he wrote a dirge in 15 minutes. "I read the news every morning," he sums up in one ballad, "and I sing the blues every...
...Those refusing Army induction: six. Marijuana arrests: 20. High today: 82." KRLA's 14-man news staff is youthful (average age: 29) and happily, rarely takes itself very seriously. Once an announcer closed with "This has been KRLA news. For all the news, listen to KNX, KFWB or read a newspaper." Spoofing traffic reporting, KRLA claims to have hired a barrage-balloon pilot who always seems to get lost...
...Port Arthur, Texas, Janis' mother and father (a cannery executive) are mildly astonished at her success, but also relieved. For a long time, she admits, they thought she was "a goner." By her own description, Janis in her Port Arthur days was a weirdo among fools. She painted, read poetry, and listened to Odetta and Leadbelly records. "Everybody else was going to drive-ins and drinking Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik. Not a hippie. Janis...