Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙American Caesar, William Manchester ∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III. Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen...
...mannequins next to the stageset gazed lifelessly on a bunch of variously dissheveled rockies doing, en masse, their Keith Richards imitations, getting into it, encased by the cracked plaster of a boxing gym and the boxing posters (from Marciano to Frazier) which marked the time-honored Garden Gym. The "Snow...blind." The smoke drifted over from the grille, covering liquor breaths and camera clarity. Johnson led into some other songs behind his tapeband including "Catch a Fallen Star," the most impressive of the bunch. He spaced-out Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" (a testimonial to Hank Williams, also done...
...Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
...less glamorous. Tall tales and legends aside, most undergraduates rarely come into contact with the network. Some sharp observers, however, will note that through early fall, a swath of grass in the Yard stays green longer than the rest, and through winter that patch melts away its cover of snow and remains in sight. These few will see beneath the legend of the Harvard tunnels...
There has been a vacancy on the Supreme Court and the Justices are distinctly disconcerted to learn that the President has appointed the first woman ever to become one of the august nine. One Justice, Dan Snow (Henry Fonda), is apoplectic. He is a cantankerous, mountain-climbing liberal maverick not too cunningly modeled on William O. Douglas. He is called "the great dissenter," a rather slippery attempt by Co-Playwrights Lawrence and Lee to shift a characterization that belongs uniquely and unalterably to Oliver Wendell Holmes. The new appointee, Ruth Loomis (Jane Alexander), is a rabid conservative hatched in Orange...