Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joel Oppenheimer's play was written, certainly, with good intentions. Centering around three cowboy desperadoes crossing the Western plains, it seeks to bitterly expose the great American romance for what it was. Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Wild Bill Hickock sit on a raised platform (that's heaven, pardner) and from time to time offer "commercials" on "The Sixgun That Won The West," "The Indians of the Americas--A Veritable Tower of Babel," and such. The format is funny and the commercials (and their delivery) are for the most part very funny. Near...
...when he was producing such works as his Les Oréades, Bouguereau found big buyers, many of them Americans. In 1900, a buyer in New York was willing to pay $7,400 for a work incredibly called Innocence. Historians credit his work as a major influence on Western saloon...
American has plenty of company in its quest to become the third U.S. airline (after Northwest and Pan Am) to span the Pacific. Eastern, Western and Continental have made similar applications to the CAB. United, which already flies to Hawaii, intends to ask for an extension to Tokyo. Delta and TWA will probably also put in bids...
...windows at passing carriages and told each other "what a pretty thing it was to see a lovely woman drive in London behind a well-matched pair," and nobody wanted "to think about making money, only about spending it." In office at Westminster was "the last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled by its "natural" leaders -those with fortune and position so secure "that the struggles for ambition are not defiled...
They are 3-0 in Ivy competition, and 12-3 overall. Clarkson stopped Cornell 2-1 early in the season, and two losses were absorbed at the hands of Denver during a western swing...