Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nigger grabbed a 75-year-old white woman in this town and brutally raped her. Brutally raped her. Did the people go out and say that nigger was a victim of discrimination and that's why he raped her? No. Three thousand people from this town rose up, took that beast out, and hung him." The speaker was one of six leaders of a National States Rights Party rally last August in front of the courthouse in Princess Anne, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Inside the courthouse, two Negroes were being held on charges of raping a white...
Hayes, a soft-spoken North Carolinian who started his career as an assistant editor for Pageant magazine, remained. He rose to managing editor in 1962, editor in 1963. He pacified the staff, tackled a perennial dull-cover problem by persuading Gingrich to try out George Lois, one of the adman inventors of the Volkswagen campaign. Lois, in real life a partner in the advertising firm of Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., gives away the $600 he gets for each cover to a Greek charity. Hayes also put across the idea that the magazine's editors should think up the table...
When the curtain rose on Mozart's Don Giovanni at Spoleto, Italy, last week, the traditional 17th century Spanish capes and courtyards were missing. Instead, singers in vaguely funereal costume drifted through bare spaces that seemed to recede into infinities of aquamarine. Massive bands of grey rock jutted around and above them. The eerie landscape was punctuated by spare, brooding pieces of sculpture: a huge, reclining nude in gleaming green; two spiky, dead-white trees; labyrinthine arch forms like vast bleached bones; a series of angular, menacing mummies...
Ikeda's subject matter is decidedly pop-Oriented: he seems humorously obsessed with the artifacts and luxuries of modern Japan's mass-produced prosperity. Rose Is Rose is a three-tiered print that piles flowers atop a pair of flowered, high-heeled shoes fitted into a box; the shoes in turn are on top of a pair of lipsticked girls who are also enclosed in a box. Woman from New York kids the Vogue ideal: a striped raincoat strides boldly across the paper-minus its wearer...
...Retail sales, becalmed since last September, rose briskly during June at a dozen major chains. Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney both announced an 8% sales gain for the month, while Interstate Department Stores, with 107 outlets in 83 cities, experienced a 14% rise in volume. The increases spread across many fields. Sales of the Grand Union grocery chain rose 9%, those of the Walgreen drug chain 15%, those of the S. S. Kresge variety chain...