Word: tune
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irving Thalberg Award passed gracefully into the hands of Alfred Hitchcock, who marched forward to the tune of his TV theme, peered over the podium, and muttered a very British "Thank...
...poured into the vast main concourse of Manhattan's Grand Central Station 3,000 strong, wearing their customary capes, gowns, feathers and beads. They tossed hot cross buns and firecrackers, and floated balloons up toward the celestial blue ceiling. They hummed the cosmic "Ommm," snake-danced to the tune of Have a Marijuana, and proudly unfurled a huge banner emblazoned with a lazy...
...Happy Gypsies, there is not a single happy gypsy-the title is an ironic quote from a traditional tzigane tune. The actors who play the gypsies may be elated now, however, for this Yugoslav movie has been nominated for an Academy Award. With good reason. Though it is full of flaws and inconsistencies of style, it depicts with melancholy and muted color the odd, anachronistic ways of an all-but-forgotten people...
...Tune, Durrell's first novel since the Quartet ended with Clea in 1960, a neurotic, solid-gold heiress with the heart of a prostitute streaks naked into her empty ballroom and shatters its mirrored walls with a repeating shotgun. This preposterous act suggests the syndrome of identity crisis and symbolic suicide encountered only too frequently in contemporary fiction. Mirrors and prisms are novelists' standard metaphors, and Durrell has always used them well. He does so again in this devilishly clever metaphysical mystery tale. But new times demand new metaphors; except for that brief, noisy episode in the ballroom...
...Howard Miller, 68 Baptist minister and dean of Harvard Divinity School since 1959; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Miller believed that "religion which is interested only in itself is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous, and throughout a distinguished career worked unceasingly to bring Christianity in tune with the secular realities of the times. A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Christianity, he argued, could only survive by bringing "new and deeper satisfaction to the human spirit...