Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this season on the Boston rock 'n' roll circuit the Unicorn Conference has staged two big names, big money concerts and the score is one-all. The first point, for good rock 'n' roll and fine, upbeat performance, was won by the Mamas and the Papas; the second was painfully lost to the forces of commercialism and bad taste by the Righteous Brothers...
...difference between a moment of prayer in unicorn and a moment of silent prayer or meditation so momentous for public education, and so plainly in the advantage of the vocal ceremony, that the extraordinary machinery of a constitutional amendment should be set in motion to achieve this alternative...
...much better reception than the old, a number of rooms have been let to film folk, some of the locals have been hired as extras-and Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar are due to arrive any day now. Says Mrs. Nan Tresilian, proprietor of an antique shop called the Unicorn Gallery, and a leader in the save-the-village movement: "The people most shocked are the American tourists. They come in here with their hair standing on end, asking, 'How could you let it happen...
...unicorn abnormal...
...quite different. It is not a burlesque, but a fable, and its content and method are more complex. Two forces oppose each other: a group of highly conventional townspeople, and a strange young man. The young man--a poet--intrudes upon the townspeoples' Sunday strolling, introducing first a unicorn, then a gorgon, and finally a manticore. Each time, the people ridicule him, but promptly imitate him. As soon as each household has acquired a unicorn, the poet's dream is reduced to a fashionable banality. As he introduces each new beast, the poet says he has killed its predecessor. When...