Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. A joyously funny fable about Italian villagers who have a ball keeping their precious vino out of the hands of the Germans during World...
...Eight Secret Service...
...Eight Secret Service men trailed Jacqueline Kennedy throughout the day. They smuggled her into Littauer Center for the afternoon meeting -- via the front door--while network television crews and news reporters waited patiently at the Center's rear door...
...Loves of Cass McGuire, by Brian Friel, whispers along for three feeble acts, but it has no secret to tell. It whispers of dead young brides and deaf old crones, of dreams, fantasies and betrayals, of the brief pleasure and passing pain some men give some women, and of how the life of the old drowns in memory. The bitter beauty of human existence that irradiated Playwright Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! last season nowhere shines in this play...
...idea of Versailles? How does the spider get the idea of its web? Louis was holding court happily enough at the Louvre, and workmen and architects were always improving and fixing things up there, or at Chambord, or wherever he moved. "Nobody," writes the author, "ever knew when this secret man first conceived the design by which his father's little hunting lodge was to become the hub of the universe." Mitford's tentative guess is the simple explanation that Louis liked the country; he lived on horseback and was a great shot. The hindsight of history alleges...