Word: steps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mostly to put it down, cheering on in traditional collegiate fashion the impudent and the impertinent. Sardonic Singer Tom Lehrer remains a remarkably long-lived favorite, with five current records to skip study by. A recent Lehrer tune: "Doin' the Vatican rag/ Get in line in that processional/ Step into that small confessional/ There the guy who's got religion'll/ Tell you if your sin's original." Another favorite is urbane, eccentric Woody Allen, who is currently flipping the filmniks by writing a Japanese movie in which the dubbed-in sound track is totally different...
...steadily spreading uptown and out from New York as the newest novelty in party giving and fund raising. Society matrons talk glibly of happenings over cocktails; actors who have never seen one are beginning to stage them. Whereas the first happenings were planned down to the last syllable and step (one Kaprow script read: "Walks to within 3 ft. of person seated opposite, stops here for seven seconds"), the latter-day copies are undisciplined free-for-alls. Sex, once a piquant accent, is now a main course...
...missions to orbit the earth. By then Saturn V, the actual moon rocket towering 364 ft. and with 7,500,000 lbs. of initial thrust, will be ready for its first flight. After last week's triumph, NASA's Dr. George Mueller was saying that "a major step toward the moon" had been made. More enthusiastic officials were even talking about landing an American on the moon in early 1968, a full year ahead of schedule...
...Christian paradox that Protestants and Roman Catholics, separated in worship, are coming together quite naturally at the level where doctrine and theology are studied. Manhattan's Protestant Union Theological Seminary and Jesuit-run Fordham University are about to take the next ecumenical step forward by creating what may grow into a common graduate program in theology. Beginning in September, the two institutions will share libraries and accept each other's credits for graduate degrees; each school, moreover, will list in its catalogue five courses available at the other institution. As a start to ward an exchange of professors...
...leaflet distribution was a first step in an effort by a newly-organized SDS committee to extend its appeal to labor...