Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done a masterful job with the set. His problem was to construct a backdrop that would allow quick exits from many positions on two levels, and could serve for living room or basement or operating room. He managed it with a series of swiveling slats that should be seen by anyone who plans to design a House production. Alan P. Symonds has done a careful job with the lighting, which is also a good deal more sophisticated than one expects at a House play...
...psychedelic parachutist descend from a "high trip," and listen to Hindu prayers by Sometime Guru Allen Ginsberg, who has survived the transition from beat to hip. Even members of Hell's Angels, the roughknuckled, leather-jacketed motorcyclists in Nazi drag, turned up to turn on: some were seen holding lost children or gently shaking tambourines. Not a single fight marred the Be-In, and as the sun went down (to the sullen wail of Ginsberg blowing a conch shell), the forgathered hippies quietly cleared every bit of litter from the park. Officials later said that they had never seen...
...Gertrude Stein's most widely read works was The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which is really about Gertrude and their famous circle as seen through Alice's eyes. Prankishly, the final page explains that Gertrude wrote the autobiography because Alice was too busy to do it herself. Was Alice then a mere alter ego to Stein? Hemingway implied that Toklas at times henpecked Stein, described her in The Moveable Feast as a "frightening" person who on one occasion said things to Stein that were "too bad to hear"; Alice cordially hated him in return. Actually, as Thornton...
...wishes that manufacturers would stop selling candy-flavored aspirin, because this makes it more dangerous to children. But the FDA has not yet seen fit to issue a ruling on that...
...have fared as badly as it did had its own house been in order. Unfortunately, it was not. Twenty years of uninterrupted enjoyment of power had made it smug and arrogant, engendered in its top leaders a false confidence in their own invulnerability. One reflection of this could be seen in their uncompromising attitude towards the dissidents inside their party, the continued and relentless exclusion of the latter from all position of authority. The bitter infighting that followed this led to large-scale expulsions and resignations and in West Bengal, Orissa and Bihar ex-Congressmen formed parties which contested...