Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College's real objection may be aesthetic. Before she decorated it, she said, the room was a "stringy, dirty hair, rainy Monday morning grey." Miss Cummin, who has offered to do any fireproofing the College requires, says she enjoys studying in the room, and that she likes to wake up and see a red blossom of the hibiscus tree reflected on the gold ceiling...
...election time last June. Canada was in a mess. The country's stock markets plunged downward in Wall Street's wake; the once proud Canadian dollar fell to 92½ U.S. cents, and Canada's foreign exchange holdings fell nearly 50% to a scary low of $1.1 billion. Six days after the election, in which the Conservatives remained in power, but as a minority government. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suddenly put on the country's most stringent austerity since 1947. Canadian Historian Bruce Hutchison mourned that Canada was "brought to the rim of ruin . . . and became...
...Gillespie, the Lewis and Clark of modern jazz, returned from their first explorations on Manhattan's 52nd Street, other musicians have been following the masters' trails. Their search is more for small refinements than grand departures, and cults of aficionados armed with phonograph records travel in their wake. Thelonious Monk's cult, whispering of Webern, insists that the silences in his music are even more profound than the sounds. Miles Davis' cult, transfixed by his trumpet, says nothing, preferring to express its worship in utter silence. But the cultists that follow John Lewis and his Modern...
...Berliners did have some mild cause for rejoicing. A year ago, the Communists were talking noisily of an imminent separate peace treaty with the Soviet Union, with its implied threat to Allied access to West Berlin. But last week there was no mention of another Berlin blockade. In the wake of the tough U.S. stance in Cuba, East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht was now having to pass delicate hints to his people that all the promises to throw the West out of Berlin would have to wait until East Germany's economic woes were eased...
Just after President Kennedy sent troops to Ole Miss, his popularity, as measured by the Gallup poll, hit a low of 61%-with only 51% of Southerners approving his performance in office. Then came Cuba, and in its wake Kennedy's popularity has soared back to 74%, with a 14-point jump to 65% in the South...