Word: surly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Helen Hayes narrates a documentary based on the works of the late Rachel Carson (The Sea Around Us, Silent Spring). Miss Hayes also reads excerpts from The Sense of Wonder and Edge of the Sea as cameras range from the rocky coast of Maine to California's Big Sur...
This year, however, the long-strong trade surplus has shriveled. In March, May and June, the U.S. actually ran trade deficits, which cut the overall sur plus for the first six months of the year to a mere $100 million...
...appropriate that Tassajara should be almost as difficult to reach as the state of satori. High in the hills of California's rugged Big Sur country, 160 miles south of San Francisco, Tassajara is the site of the nation's first and only Zen Buddhist monastery...
With the decay of a revolution, Lifton writes, "the dying revolutionary can envision nothing but the total extinction of his own self." Because Mao and a few around him suffer from this "sur vivor paranoia," China "must be made to convulse." Thus the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was contrived by Mao and his aging comrades in a quest for the rebirth of zealous Communism in China. To stoke the fires of fanaticism, the leaders called forth specific images of hate: "American imperialism," "bourgeois remnants," and "modern revisionism," and turned the Red Guard loose in the streets...
Married. Mimi Baez, 23, younger sister of Folk Queen Joan Baez, currently acting with "The Committee," a San Francisco theater group; and Mylan Melvin, 25, producer for Mercury Records; both for the second time (her first husband, Novelist Richard Farina, was killed in 1965); in Big Sur, Calif...