Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ballots and Bandwagons, Ralph G. Martin saw it as "a glorified national town meeting, mixed with a sense of circus and a huge tremor of hope and history." To H. L. Mencken, it was "vulgar, ugly, stupid, tedious, hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus. And yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour...
After the announcement that the leaders would move on to Bratislava for another conference, the country was confused. A restless, worried crowd of several thousand people assembled in Prague's Old Town Square. "Tell us the truth!" they shouted when National Assembly President Josef Smrkovský came out on a balcony. "For how much did you sell us to the Russians?" "If I told you that I am not ashamed to look into the eyes of our citizens after Cierna," Smrkovský replied earnestly, "would you believe me?" In his radio address, Dubček reassured the people that...
Look, if a guy wants to exercise his lungs by belting out a few bars of his favorite tune, who's to complain? Certainly not the staffers at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, when a rousing version of Hello, Dolly! wafted out of the sterile isolation room housing Dr. Philip Blaiberq, 59. Blaiberg, who used Brahms' Lullaby for exercise after his January heart transplant, has been hospitalized for the past two months with a lung complication coupled with hepatitis. Critical and near death for a time, he is now bouncing merrily along the road...
...meetings or relax between engagements without paying the full 24-hour tariff. The Hilton's Day-Hour Plan should also prove a boon to suburban wives who need somewhere to put themselves back together after a day of shopping before meeting their husbands for an evening on the town...
Fractured French. From Inspector Clouseau to Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a journey from comedy to tragedy, from fractured French to utter silence. As John Singer, a deaf-mute silverware engraver living in a small Dixie town, Arkin moves through a gallery of Southern gothic tragedy. A fellow mute (Chuck McCann) does violence to a store window, and is committed to a mental institution, where he dies. A Negro doctor who befriends Singer is racked with cancer, and has a hostile, hate-drugged daughter (Cicely Tyson...