Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Publisher Charles Gould of the San Francisco Examiner says he has turned away "tens of thousands of dollars" in advertising that he found overly offensive. Still, the Examiner went ahead and ran the Sister George ad unretouched. Another display ad showed a motorcycle gang from Naked Angels closing in on a near-nude girl. The copy read, "Mad dogs from hell! Hunting down their prey with a quarter-ton of hot steel between their legs...
...murder helped inspire the moderate groundswell of opinion that rallied to the civil rights movement; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Said Goodman at the time: "Our grief, though personal, belongs to the nation. The values our son expressed in his simple action of going to Mississippi are still the bonds that bind this nation together...
...defended her own obsession with Gothic eccentricity in plain terms. "To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. It is most certainly Christ-haunted." She pursued her own art with a strict attention to the order, proportion and radiance of what she was creating. Perhaps that is why Mystery and Manners inadvertently provides a fitting epitaph for the books that she so artfully created before her death. "The fiction writer presents mystery through man ners, grace...
...late in delivering the 191,000-ton Esso Malaysia because it sagged so badly on the trial run that it had to be reinforced with an extra 500 tons of steel. Sir John Hunter, chairman of Britain's Swan Hunter, concedes that "some of our costing estimates are still largely hopes...
Whatever the outcome, the lads will be free again to pursue lighter pastimes. Since each Beatle is still personally worth $5,000,000 to $9,000,000, they have plenty for the pursuit. As Lennon explains: "The point of Klein is for me not to be a businessman - to take it off me back so I don't have to worry about the details...