Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equal number in surrounding communities). Across the nation, outbreaks were spotty. Boston reported up to 20% of schoolchildren absent. Pittsburgh was hard hit. Cleveland had 254 teachers out (5% of the force), and many schools had 15% or more of pupils absent. In Columbus and Detroit, the flu wave appeared to be breaking. In several Texas cities-Houston, San Antonio and Austin -the worst seemed over, but Brownsville and El Paso were in the thick...
Black Orpheus (French). The vitality of a tropic carnival in Brazil gives new life to the old legend. Brilliantly directed by Marcel ("New Wave") Camus...
Using gamma radiation of an extraordinarly precise wave-length, the scientists have attempted to send the radiation through a distance sufficient to induce a gravitational change of wave length which Einstein's theory predicts. Until the experiment was suggested, the theory's only verification came from astronomical observations whose accuracy was not great enough to establish the principle beyond doubt...
Black Orpheus (French). Director Marcel Camus' modern version of the Orpheus legend, set in Brazil, is one of the most impressive cans of film so far cast up on U.S. shores by the so-called New Wave of French movies...
...Blows (French). In another excellent New Wave film, the story of a runaway delinquent boy is turned into a broad indictment of the audience itself and society at large...