Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Forest, as well as the Harvard Black Rock Forest in Southern New York, is run for research, not commercial purposes. Students working for the degree of Master in Forestry from Harvard receive their training at the forest...
...placard on the counter of the Manhattan music store of Carl Fischer, Inc. was modest enough in size, but the slogan it bore was a call to arms. "COMBAT THE MENACE!" it read. "GET YOUR LUDWIG BUTTON.'' The menace: none other than Rock 'n' Roller Elvis Presley. The Ludwig: a composer with the last name of Beethoven. Last week Ludwig van Beethoven was the center of one of the fastest-growing fan clubs in the nation...
...world seemed at hand. The sun beat down on the rock-strewn desert and struck shimmering heat waves from the flat, metallic surface of the Dead Sea. In a room of the community, the elders took council; they were sure that the men of darkness would soon be upon the Children of Light. Reports had come that Vespasian's legionaries, clanking up the road from Caesarea, were already at Jericho, less than seven miles to the north. Before they moved on Jerusalem, the Romans would surely fall upon the Community by the Dead Sea. Perhaps then, at last...
...Setting. The black and fragile bits of leather that now make nests for rats in desert rock holes, or repose in battered cigarette boxes with such labels as Gold Star and Friends, are not the only puzzle pieces that need gathering and fitting together. There are also human and historical fragments from which scholars are trying to reconstruct the story of the Qumran sect itself-one of the great dramas of the Judeo-Christian tradition...
Giant. A big (3 hr. 18 min.). tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, directed by George Stevens; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...