Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thousands of young people with the same haircut, the same facial expression, rush out every Saturday to buy what everyone else is wearing so they can look different. One can no longer have his own opinion: he must wait until he is told whether a movie is In before he can like it. He can't buy a suit unless it comes from Carnaby Street. He must listen to discordant noise sung by rude, pseudo-intellectual malcontents because it is the sound of his generation. He must be atheistic, anarchistic, hedonistic. Hooray for liberated British youth! I can hardly...
Outside Carnegie Hall, the long vigil for tickets begins. Some wait in line for 48 hours in the rain for the privilege of buying standing room. Moments before the concert begins, Horowitz, tight as a high wire, reaches out to an usher. "Listen," he says, "you're young and healthy. Give me your hands to warm my fingers." "When I felt his hands," Horowitz recalls later, "I drew mine back quickly. Mine were cold, but his were really icy. He was more nervous than I. Everybody was nervous...
...will play again before the public, at Rutgers University in a gymnasium where basketball is the normal fare. The tension is broken-this time, he thinks, forever. "My only idiosyncrasy is that I prefer to play in the afternoon," he says. "It is tense to wait until the evening. By the time evening comes I am ready to go eeeeeech! But that is all. The audiences are too hysterical now because I play too seldom. These hysterics, they bother me, they make me nervous. I have a responsibility to make the public relax. I am ready to play more...
Lincoln, in winning his first game of the year against two losses, walked only one man and struck out two. The righthander had to wait a day to get his chance for glory -- the game, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed because of rain...
...Faculty Will Wait...