Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighborly gins could be just another exurbanite worried about taxes and with strong views on zoning. But this is an obsessed man. Re-created in his novels and stories as Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor, the suburban region is subjected to terrible metamorphosis. It is not Sing Sing Prison straddling the New York Central tracks by the Hudson shore that is the worst destination of the inhabitants, but a netherworld of damnation. In Metamorphoses, one neighbor has suffered a magical transformation into Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own hounds. In another story, his wife has become...
Cruising Fleet. From Turkey came roars of indignation. Five thousand Ankara students marched through the capital shouting "Down with Makarios!" . Others gathered at the statue of Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, to sing his favorite marching song: The Mist Covers the Top of the Mountain. Then they marched angrily to army headquarters to present a parcel of Cyprus soil to the General Staff. The demonstrators wanted action from the government, and they got it in the form of a gravely worded note issued by the Foreign Office. "The massacre, which is becoming a genocide, has forced Turkey...
After each lecture, the Cursillistas divide into smaller groups to discuss its application to their lives, draw pictures that illustrate the sermon's main points. To relieve spiritual tension, the Cursillo schedule provides moments of respite in which the students tell jokes and sing songs, notably a jaunty little Spanish folk tune called De Colores (Of Colors) that has become the unofficial theme of the Cursillo. Sample verse...
...full-length two-character play, each actor has to be at least an actor and a half. Both J. D. Cannon and James Earl Jones are enormously skillful. At first Cannon seems considerate, practical, matter-of-fact, and then his nerves start to sing like high-tension wires. The playgoer senses that he is watching a man hiding from the beast in himself. James Earl Jones can be as quiet as an extinct volcano one moment, and spewing emotional lava across a stage the next. With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage...
Senior's sister had taught him one way to explode a haunting melody. Sing "Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb, little lamb, Mary had a little lamb CHOP...