Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rejected. But there was at least a rare moment of light relief. Thanh Le, the chief Hanoi spokesman, complained at a press briefing that Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky want to keep U.S. troops in South Viet Nam so that they can continue to get rich on traffic in opium and cinnamon. Cinnamon? "Ah," Le explained, "South Viet Nam's cinnamon is the finest in the world, and when mixed properly is a powerful aphrodisiac. It is much in demand." It was the first appearance of sex in 14 months of negotiations...
...sentence is, of course, a parody of all the clothes-lessness-is-next-to-Godliness homilies of hippies, nudists, protesters and naked theater advocates, who have somehow managed to equate the altogether with the unattainable: total honesty, innocence, understanding, peace and, in the same breath, revolution. Protesters who stop traffic or disrupt the work of a draft board by taking off their clothes use nudity as a kind of nonviolent Luddism. But artistically undressing is too easy. If a dramatist can substitute a mute nude for the interplay of character and situation, he will be tempted...
Those nuts were well rewarded. The evening had been billed as one of "jazz for the connoiseur." It was actually more of a jazz potpourri. It began a bit slowly with George Benson and Sunny Murray (or so I was told; the rain and the traffic on Route 128 kept me from getting there on time), but picked up with Freddie Hubbard and his group (unfortunately, so did the rain). It's hard to classify Hubbard's sound; maybe "slight futuristic soul-jazz" comes closest. Two of his pieces--the best two--called "Space Drive" and "Eclipse...
...seemed to be Festival director Wein's way of teasing us all and reminding us what was to come that night. And it seemed to pacify, for a while at least, the crowd on the hill behind Festival Field. But as the afternoon wore on into evening (and the traffic backed up for miles and it took two hours to drive four blocks) the crowd on the hill grew and the tension kept building. During the show, small groups did, in fact, continue to rush the gates, the wall was broken in several places, and the crowd inside kept pushing...
...Niccolo d'Este, the Marquis of Ferrara (one cannot help wondering who counted them); the 2,000 oxen and 80,000 fowl reportedly consumed at the two-week wedding feast for Niccolo's son Leonello and Maria of Aragon; the 200 souls trampled to death in a traffic jam on Rome's Sant' Angelo bridge during the 1450 jubilee celebration...