Word: roofed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blank Shot. The blacks have been savagely mauled in the battle. Nearly a hundred died in clashes with the trigger-happy police, and South African jails are filled to the roof with 1,575 political prisoners, including 94 white allies of the blacks. Hundreds more are being arrested daily. Those leaders who escaped the massive roundups have gone underground or fled to the safety of the British protectorates of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland. Leaderless and with their larders emptied by the stay-at-home strikes of the past month, the impoverished blacks ignored the order of the African National Congress...
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...Glass Menagerie is both "positive and healthy," he says, "eulogizes the heroic qualities of human nature in adversity." Admitting the "negative charge" in Tennessee's other plays-he calls Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort...
Today, the roof is making a dramatic comeback. One prime mover in the trend is Florida and Manhattan Architect Vic tor Lundy, 37. Working in laminated wood and reinforced concrete, Lundy has designed churches, schools, homes, motels and shops that seem to make a whole building out of the roof. The results are structures that have an evocative beauty, come at bargain prices, and pack a strong emotional wallop (see color pages...
...they ever turn professional," said Bandleader Stan Kenton, "I know a lot of guys who aren't going to like it." He was standing in Notre Dame's sprawling field house, where 200 cats had all but blown the roof off in the hippest college bash of them all-the second annual College Jazz Festival. When the musicians packed their instruments and headed back to their campuses last week, they left the panel of five judges- convinced that college combos these days are playing some of the finest and freshest jazz in the land...