Word: supper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greek bard, Provencal troubadour or Negro blues man, the folk singer has always played the role of a romantic wanderer. Fashioning his songs from real or imagined experiences along the way, he has sung for his supper and moved on. But lately, that style has been in danger of fading. The modern bards team up with commercial rock groups, or pa rade into well-publicized seclusion, or go wandering in their own psyches in stead of the countryside...
Died. Cy Walter, 53, noted supper-club pianist, whose graceful, stylized renditions of such popular tunes as Begin the Beguine were a feature of Manhattan's night life for some 30 years, most recently at the Drake Hotel; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...more coherent of the mul tiple story lines concerns Barnabas' quest for a bride. Since he comes out of his coffin home only after dark, he prefers supper dates, and six times has mixed his fatal business with pleasure. "The whole essence of my character," says Frid earnestly, "is guilt over my hang-up-vampirism-and my bites suffer. I envy the bites of the two other vampires. They are positively erotic...
...means of income), illegitimate babies born (many of which die), and to see the children swim in the gullies and play with rats because there is no other place for them to play, and to come home for the evening meal with flies for the main course of the supper. Blacks are continuously and sadistically being attacked by the dogs of the White police department and beaten on the sidewalks in front of their own homes by clubs from the White hands of National Guardsmen, because they're dissatisfied with the way the so called "justice" of Whites seems...
First over coffee, then at supper on the terrace, and later over Russian cognac, Brandt tried to impress on his Soviet host the fact that, as he put it, "the East German measures are damaging and place a burden on efforts to reach a detente." Despite the good personal relations between the two men (they met five times while Brandt was still West Berlin's mayor), it was a tough session. Though he issued no blustery warnings, Brandt made it clear that Bonn would not allow itself to be provoked into abandoning its policy of improving relations with...