Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bearded Beats. No avant-gardist could resist a success like that, and when an English translation became available this year, the New York festival's sponsors leaped at it. Allan Kaprow, the inventor of "happenings," was signed up as director, and Allen Ginsberg, grand old man of the beats, was persuaded to take on the exacting role of the poet. The opening at Judson Hall could not have been more auspicious; it was picketed by a rival group calling itself "Fluxus," bearing signs: "Fight the rich man's snob art." Fluxus Leader Henry Flynt favors "compositions" in which...
...shape of the state of Texas. After an unsuccessful search through Manhattan stores, Pat called her mother in Houston and had a Texas cookie cutter sent airmail special delivery, thereby enabling her to provide what Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, who was in charge of the story, could not resist describing as research that really gave him something to chew...
Stare also commented that one of the per targets of the health quacks is the "poisoning" of our water supply through flouridation. "Floride is a mineral nutrient," he said; the body must have sufficient flourine to construct a dental enamel strong enough to resist decay...
...there is one thing that the U.S. Senate holds as dear as its freedom to unlimited talk, it is the freedom to resist (with enormous success, so far) any attempt to impose on it a formal code of conduct and ethics. Last week, after wrangling for eight hours over whether they should be obliged to open their financial books to public view, the Senators once more successfully defended their cherished freedom...
Springtime, and lunch at a restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne-who could resist the combination? Certainly not Maria Meneghini Callas, 40, or maybe it was Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolf Bing, 62, who proved only human after all. At any rate, the two kissed and made up in Paris in June, and La Divina will return to the Met for Tosca next year, her first New York appearance since Bing fired her for breaking an engagement...