Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With every album since Rubber Soul, the Beatles have been approaching an all-encompassing pop-music nirvana. Pray that they make it before old age and the Establishment catch up with them...
...gain recognition, a group must have such things as local autonomy, at least ten undergraduate members, two faculty or graduate advisers, and no non-Harvard people. The College also requires the recommendation of the Harvard Undergraduate Council (a rubber stamp...
...just love my nose-goes with the setting," said the masked guest, tilting his twelve-inch rubber proboscis toward the Tiepelo frescoes on the ceiling of Venice's Palazzo Ca' Rezzonica. It was the season's gaudiest Ballo in Maschera (masked ball), and more than 500 of the plumiest knights and dames of the international round table had donned their most expensive armor to dance, taste champagne, guess each other's identities and incidentally raise money for the Venetian artisans still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came...
...sides over the whole question of uncoded checks. Out in Las Vegas, Caesar's Palace was quick to announce that casino customers were welcome to use them as usual. On the other hand, saloon keepers and merchants, who often find that a universal check is made of rubber, are just as eager to stretch the law. "Sorry," cashiers at an A. & P. store in Atlanta told check-seeking customers, "they're illegal...
...this time with the railroad telegraphist. During one encounter he playfully imprints her rear with a German occupation stamp-an indelible gesture that scandalizes her mother, who promptly trots daughter all over town, showing the handiwork to anyone who will look. Eventually, the crestfallen dispatcher is brought before a rubber-stamp congress of officialdom to account for his shocking behavior. Brandishing photographic evidence of the misdeed, a Nazi bureaucrat asks: "Miss Svata, is this your behind?", and prates about the "defamation of the German state language...