Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSE TATTOO. In his most verdant drama, Tennessee Williams molded his most earthy and full-blown heroine (Maureen Stapleton), a Sicilian widow in Louisiana, whose glory fades at the death of her husband, but is eventually brought back to bloom by another man (Harry Guardino...
...Yugoslav state of Slovenia, found himself confronted with noisy objections fortnight ago in the regional legislature. He was trying to push through a bill streamlining the Slovenian health-insurance bureaucracy-for which over half of the deputies worked and thus were reluctant to see reorganized. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce Smole's proposed law. Tolerantly, the president let the deputies rant and rave, confident that when all was said, the party's will would be done as usual. But when he called for a vote, the measure, to his astonishment, was voted down...
...progress since the 1956 revolution. His conclusion: there had been none. No democratic freedom had evolved. Criticism and research in literature, sociology, modern history and the arts were still sharply inhibited. The old Stalinist penal code was still in existence and arbitrarily applied. The students applauded wildly, and several rose to support Kolakowski's defiant conclusion...
...Everything I Love." After giving Heyns a standing ovation, the faculty heard the student-government president, Dan Mclntosh, concede that the strike should end. Various faculty members then rose to make comments. Biochemist John B. Neilands, noting that the use of police had injected much of the emotionalism into the dispute, called the police's conduct a "brutal and obscene sight." Chemistry Professor George Pimentel countered that only civil law could deal with "demagoguery, vituperation and threats," said that "everything I love at Berkeley is at stake." Electrical Engineering Professor Charles Susskind compared the agitators with "the Nazi students...
...greatest Englishman of his age. As a humanist and classical scholar, he ranked with Pico and Erasmus. As an author (Utopia), he became the first great social philosopher of the modern era. As a jurist, he was the brightest legal light of the realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest scandal of the century, choosing to save his soul though he lost his head, and for his martyrdom he is recorded in the calendar of saints...