Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scorned or rejected by modern Christianity. Implicitly, this is the theme of Nazarin, a Mexican film made ten years ago by Luis Buňuel;, a onetime cinema surrealist and lifelong enemy of church and state. The film is now shown in the U.S. for the first time, in the wake of his successful Belle de Jour...
...wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, public revulsion gave Congress its cue. Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings, the sponsor of a tough bill that would require licenses for the purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, and registration of the weapons, was deluged with 10,000 letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck...
Simple Choice. Coming immediately in the wake of the revolt that rocked France, the campaigning was understandably intense and emotional. In the closing days, the party of General Charles de Gaulle, which had concentrated its attacks on the Communists, shifted some of its criticism to the centrists, who presented themselves as a moderate third force between the two power blocs, and even to the Gaullists' old allies, the Independent Republicans of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. "These are candidates of diversion, division and treason," warned Premier Georges Pompidou in his final appeals. "They are between two chairs...
...road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy and The Mothers of Invention. Like his idol, the late avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, he is given to such pronouncements as, "A record is sound forever, not just a disk of plastic," and, "I'm desperately trying to wake the world...
...power of love and caring." He thus considers the hippies ineffective for dropping out, the activists wrong for "alienating the older generation from the younger." The campus revolutionaries "are so lost in their own idealism that they forget that those with other ideals are people too. Students must wake up and realize that what they want is not to tear down the universities?but to embrace each other...