Word: soon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seasons as by the irregular flights of the missiles. Bouts of furious activity and 14-hour days may be followed by periods of idleness. "It's not a natural environment," complains Ray Forbes of General Electric, who visits the space center for launchings but leaves as soon as he can. "Down here you oversmoke, overeat, overdrink, overworry and undersleep...
...theory soon gathered support on both sides of the screen. Suddenly the films of Alfred Hitchcock or Orson Welles could be spoken of as works with strands of philosophy running through them, like the plays of Racine. Republic Pictures' westerns and Warner Brothers' gangster films from the '40s were reappraised as examples of directorial brilliance...
...year was 1922. Dada was dead, Surrealism not yet born. Max Ernst, a fledgling artist who had figured prominently in the former movement and would soon help formulate the latter, was in his native Cologne, yearning for the radical friends that he knew were spawning the most adventuresome ideas of the day in postwar Paris. For Germans in those days, French visas were almost impossible to obtain. Finally, one August night, Ernst slipped across the border. Later he turned up at the Paris apartment of two friends, the poet Paul Eluard and his wife Gala...
...notes: "A drift toward community separation, toward violence, toward the denial of our common brotherhood with white men that the Gospel proclaims." Black militants may attempt to impose the doctrine of violence on their own community, in which case Rooks predicts that "it is highly likely that there may soon be black martyrs at the hands of black people...
...French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually, the sisters accuse Grandier of indecent and immoral behavior, which has led to their being possessed by the devil. The charges coincide with certain local political and ecclesiastical intrigues that find Grandier an ideal scapegoat. Despite agonized hours of torture, the priest denies...