Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head cold." Pancake Poet. And so. in a way. Evtushenko's courage has not been put to the severest test, as Pasternak's was. But if a change came in his fortune, Zhenya would not be the first Evtushenko to suffer for his views. In the wave of repression that followed Czar Alexander II's assassination in 1881, Great-Grandfather Joseph Evtushenko was banished from the Ukraine as a suspected subversive, died on the grueling 3,500-mile trek to eastern Siberia. Joseph's 18 children settled finally in Zima, a bleak lumber station...
...York premiere of Music Walk with Dancer by avant-garde U.S. Composer John Cage. Composer Cage's electronic nightmare lasted ten minutes and required the services of Cage himself, Pianist David Tudor and Dancer Jill Johnston. Occasionally reading directions from slips of paper, they scurried from one short-wave radio to another, twiddling dials and assaulting the audience with a drumfire of rattles, bangs, pops and nonsense syllables roared into a microphone. Occasionally they turned on an electric blender or belabored the piano. Commented the unpleased New York Times: "Mayhem...
...less surprised than a burly, blue-eyed Texan named Maurice Edwin Moore. As president of Transcontinental Bus System, Inc., Moore, 51, has built one of the nation's fastest-growing businesses on the proposition that as far as mass transportation by land is concerned, the bus is the wave of the future...
...strong wave of change toward socialism is sweeping almost every nation, Marko Nikejic, Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United States, told a Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Club meeting last night...
Last Year at Marienbad. Alain Resnais, the grand admiral of the French New Wave, has produced a movie that is anything but a movie; a metaphysical enigma, a Platonic allegory, a treatise on cubistic cinema that attempts an Einsteinian revolution in the art of film...