Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mannerisms matter far less than the value of his honest complaints. He is an advocate of little men, and if he remains one himself, it only enriches the ring of his lyrics?as in his best song, Blowin' in the Wind, an anthem for the whole lost crowd he speaks...
...people's lives?" he pleads-but the chorus gives him no answer. The children's innocent voices haunt him. The adult chorus damns him: "Cursed be the shepherd who leads his flock to death," the people cry, and they burn his books, stone his palace, cast his ring into the sea. Then the blinding answer comes in a climactic sweep of music: death's enriching lesson comes only to those who have suffered the pain of their conscience...
...thought he knew enough about the bees' talking dance. Dr. Esch rigged up an artificial bee and stuck it in a hive to repeat a dance that had been performed by a live scout bee. At the proper moment, a tiny loudspeaker emitted the proper recorded sounds. A ring of workers followed the performance with apparent interest, and Dr. Esch hoped that they would fly out of the hive to find the nectar described by the simulated scout...
Church bells ring on a winter Sunday in a Swedish coastal village. The devout -they number just nine-assemble in the drafty little stone building. The pastor (Gunnar Björnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman...
...evening Fuller-Sandys gazed at her in a special way; she said yes-and in English. Promptly Fuller-Sandys called on her gnarled father, an aged and respected laborer on the place. Naturally. Fuller-Sandys handed over a bride price ($100); then Fuller-Sandys slipped a diamond engagement ring on Margaret's finger. It was a brave step in white-ruled Southern Rhodesia. Immediately the government fired Fuller-Sandys as an adviser in the Native Affairs Department, curtly explaining: "You cannot administer Africans and sleep with them." Of 48 white friends Fuller-Sandys invited to the wedding last week...