Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks, it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture...
Died. Eddie South, 57, one of the vanishing group of great Negro jazz violinists, whose sweet tone prompted Paul Whiteman to nickname him the "Dark Angel"; of a heart attack; on Chicago's South Side...
...life as a guilty man." God, says Wagener, "deflates our balloons, collapses our dreams, crushes our illusions," but ultimately calls man to belief-and to work in the world as a believer: "Is God dead?" asks a student, and answers: "Do you mean the God of the Sweet By-and-By? Yes, and good riddance." On balance, the Austin Experiment has made more friends than foes. Over the year, 570 ministers and laymen (mostly Methodists, Episcopalians and Presbyterians) from across the country have crowded into the community's guesthouse for symposiums; most go home impressed by the intensity...
...Sweet Slavery. Southern writers cultivated their own myth as assiduously as Northerners. Theirs was a knightly ideal of chivalry lifted from the novels of Sir Walter Scott. Ignoring the squalor in the real South, they populated fictitious plantations with gorgeous women and jolly slaves. Romantic hyperbole was commonplace. Wrote Poet Sydney Lanier to his wife after 9½ years of marriage: "My heart's Heartsease, My sweet Too-sweet, if I could wrap thee in a calyx of tender words still would they seem but like the prickly husk in respect of thee, thou Rose, within." Southerners spun elaborate...
...Sweet Bird of Youth. Tennessee Williams' Bird was an artistic turkey on Broadway, but as directed by Richard Brooks, it makes a noisy and sometimes brilliant peacock of a picture...