Word: throbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Desolation Row. The brown wood panelling, the dirty floor, the floor is wet--how'd it get wet?--the glowing red coils of the hotplate, the gray throb of he lightbulb. The world is a bus terminal. Who makes it out to Desolation Row? Well, for a starter...
Luckily, there are the snazzy Richard Adler-Jerry Ross songs. It is with these that Yankees connects often enough to made much of the evening throb with that special kind of joy peculiar to the musical theatre...
HARVARD Yard was a mosaic of confused activity as the university moved into its second week of crisis. The throb of rock bands echoed from the old walls, sometimes drowning out the rhythmic chants of black militants, often punctuated by the harsh rasp of bullhorns blaring out strike messages. The walled yard had the air of an ancient red brick city under siege. White sheets emblazoned with STRIKE in bold red letters hung from the windows of freshman dormitories and classroom buildings. Strike posters and copies of the antiadministration underground paper Old Mole were stapled to the venerable elm trees...
Hannes Graff and Siegfried Javotnik are Austrian students. They could just as well be undergraduates at Columbia, bent on bringing off a zoo bust for the seals in Central Park. At first they throb and chortle through the spring countryside on a huge 700-cc. Royal Enfield motorcycle. But even there they come face to face with cruelty and the law. Siggy, the idealist of the pair, fights with a milkman who is mistreating a horse. Trying to escape the police, he is killed crashing into a wagonload of honey-filled beehives...
...pastoral quiet of Lynnfield, Mass., was shattered one night last summer by the nerve-jangling throb of a pile driver. The residents' darkest suspicions were soon confirmed. The Boston suburb was to be the first of 15 localities where the Government plans to build anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) sites. Now, like other communities across the country, Lynnfield is fighting the nuclear intrusion with all its limited means...