Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three cheers for Howard Richards and Edmund Leites [April 29]. We have gladly joined forces with the "1 Like Ludwig" club in this effort to crush the Pelvis. Ludwig can give rock 'n' roll a run for its money...
...device is a wallboard box, about one cubic foot in size, which contains a smaller box made of galvanized iron. Between the two boxes are alternating layers of rock wool and steel wool. A tube from the inside draws off the accumulated orgone...
...July 1951 an embittered Palestinian refugee waylaid old King Abdullah as he went to pray at Jerusalem's sacred Mosque of the Rock. There was a clatter of shots and the stouthearted old King fell dead. One of the assassin's bullets ripped a medal from the chest of 15-year-old Hussein as he walked beside his grandfather. It was a deed that Hussein can never let himself forget...
...What matters vitally is the peace and stability of the area; it was not enough merely to reassemble the unworkable status quo ante-though that is progress of sorts. So long as half a million Palestine refugees have so little to look forward to, so long will Jordan rock. Stability in which to work for better solutions is only the start, but it is a necessary start. The young King who was bringing it about, with some faltering in tactics but with surprising firmness of purpose, has, said one admiring American observer, "completed his sophomore year in the fastest time...
...Brother, the Rock."A painter who was to have an equally great influence on succeeding generations was Mi Fei, the ideal exponent of the wen-jen hua, or Literary Man's Painting. He was a great art collector, caustic critic, expert on ink-stones and a lover of fantastically eroded rocks (his favorite, placed in his garden, he addressed as "my elder brother"). His calligraphy (see cut) is one of the most famous in Chinese art history, marked by bold, strong characters that broke with the florid, decorative manner of his predecessors. Despite his eccentric habit of dressing...