Word: singed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the pledge is given merely by standing at attention." Last week Federal District Court Judge H. Curtis Meaner declared the requirement unconstitutional. But the judge added a cautionary note: "Of course, the student has no right to disrupt the classroom-to jump up and down, play a drum, sing a song, pound on the table." So far no libertarian has attacked this injunction as an abridgment of freedom...
More often, Berkowitz couched his strange ideas in vivid verbiage. Said part of a note found in his car: "And huge drops of lead/ Poured down upon her head/ Until she was dead. Yet the cats still come out at night to mate; and the sparrows still sing in the morning...
...Broadway called, with roaring show-business logic, Beatlemania. Two months after-it began, bereft of plot and without benefit of an official opening night, Beatlemania is playing nightly to packed houses. The stars of the show are four Beatles look-and sound-alikes, who during the evening play and sing 29 Beatles songs. Meanwhile, on a series of scrims and screens, with help from running printout headlines, newsreel clips and still blowups, Beatlemania fleetingly invokes some turbulent events and fateful people from the 1960s...
From the stage comes the joyful wallop of She Loves You (yeh, yeh, yeh). Behind the footlights, the four young New York musicians recruited for the venture-and rehearsed daily for nine months to master the music-play and sing about as well as mere Beatleoids might be expected...
...major publishing event. An excerpt from the novel that ran last fall in American Review alerted readers to its incendiary subject: the June 19, 1953, execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In Coover's fiction, the convicted atomic bomb spies are transferred from the death house at Sing Sing to a public stage in Times Square for their execution. Word began circulating that several publishers had considered the manuscript and decided not to risk legal repercussions. The question naturally arose: What in this obstreperous age could be unfit to print...