Word: rip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel) takes the composer of Guys and Dolls for a long ride-from a tough Manhattan of floating crap games to a quaint folk region of scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call to wander, where a stern ramrod reverend and a kindly rolypoly one share the same pulpit, where Anthony Perkins, as a bedeviled...
...bearded man stared hard at a Morris Graves watercolor called Hawk, then furiously snatched it from the wall and smashed the glass against a radiator. The gallery attendant ran out of her office just in time to see him tear the painting out of the shattered frame and deliberately rip it in two. "An absolutely shocking, disgusting fake," snapped the destroyer: Painter Morris Graves...
...offer from the Defense Department to rent land under the stadium for secret underground atomic tests. "The University is not considering the offer," President Pusey admits, during a conference in his Hayes St. apartment. "It is inconsistent with the University's tradition of scientific amateurism. Besides, they would probably rip up the playing field...