Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctors. Somewhere along the line, Joan Baez' family became Quakers, but Joan herself is not a Friend. "Living is my religion," she says. She practices it currently on California's rugged coast. She has lived there for more than a year, including eight months in the Big Sur region in a squalid cabin with five cats and five dogs. The cabin was a frail barque adrift on a sea of mud, and sometimes when Joan opened...
...SUR (241 pp.)-Jack Kerouac-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...President was pushing his luck: in the past eleven months, he has escaped from a gasoline bomb that exploded in flames in front of his car at Pont-sur-Seine, emerged unscathed from a planned ambush at Vesoul, where a six-man "suicide squad" was waiting to kill him with rifles fitted out with telescopic sights. There was even an abortive plot by his enemies to blast him with bazookas on the steps of the Elysée Palace...
...great distance from youth's naive anger to the flatulence of age; passage of time and belief in one's own guff are all that is needed to turn one into the other. Now, at 70, living in the mountains of California's Big Sur as guru to a small colony of disciples, Miller is quite capable of prating: "It would be a grand thing for any community, large or small, to set aside even five minutes of the day for serious contemplation. If nothing more were to result than the recognition of such a feeling...
Married. Natalie Owings, 22, sloe-eyed daughter of Architect Nathaniel Owings; and John Fell Stevenson, 25, Adlai's third son; in Big Sur, Calif...