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The casual observer must sense a precipitous decline in anti-war activity since April's peace march brought several hundred thousand daffodiled protestors to New York City. Throughout April, the demonstration--and Martin Luther King's much publicized switch to active dove --captured headline after headline. But since then the...

Author: By Bruce Springer, | Title: Peace Movement Strives To Reach Working Class | 7/11/1967 | See Source »

Brahms' Symphony No.3 in F must have been planned as the Big Romantic Conclusion, but it was the weakest and most disappointing part of the program. For the first time the full resources of the HRO were deployed, and they were unwieldy. Ensemble was generally bad, and the orchestra rarely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRO | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

When Washington makes major economic moves, Wall Street responds with a spasm of stock trading. Last week, at President Johnson's call to restore tax credits for business investment, the market churned through its most frenzied day in 37 years. When it was all over, stocks made only modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Speculative Fervor | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Cynical/Rabbinical. To watch the twelve features in the series is to watch Hollywood at its brilliant best and its wilted worst. Her earliest appearance is in Office Blues at 19, when, in spit curls and bee-stung lips, she boop-a-doops: "I hate to urge a man/But he acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Ginger Peachy | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

In the variegated nosegay of American letters, the Deep South's poetry of decadence stinks like a long-since-wilted magnolia, but Author Wilkinson magically refreshes its fragrance with images new as dew: "A green snake weaved around the rocks, rolling like a liquid in hot glass until the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The First Novelists: Skilled, Satirical, Searching | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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