Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. The old fairy tale gets a dizzy and often funny retelling in an oddball and very contemporary idiom. As Snow White puts it: "Oh, I wish there were some words in the world that were not the words I always hear." She gets her wish...
...wish," laments Dionne Warwick, 26, in. "someone would tell me where I fit in" That's easy. She is the best new female pop-jazz-gospel-rhythm-and-blues singer performing today...
...University, ventured into Take the A Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were mine," deadpanned the maestro...
...world peace by refusing to supply Red China with nuclear armaments, and quotes from a 1959 conversation with Mao Tse-tung to demonstrate Chinese bellicosity. "Comrade Khrushchev," Mao said, "you have only to provoke the Americans to military action and I will give you as many people as you wish-100 divisions, 200 divisions, 1,000." Khrushchev goes on to tell how he explained to Mao that "with contemporary techniques, his divisions meant nothing, because one or two rockets would be enough to turn all the divisions into dust." Mao disagreed, Khrushchev reports, "obviously regarding me as a coward...
...purpose here is to see if, however slightly, one can rise above these rigidities. I do not wish to pretend to view our situation in Vietnam with any special insight or wisdom. These I do not claim, and even if I did so, I would be cautiously aware of our well-recognized and exceedingly valuable tendency to greet such pretension with something between skepticism and outright vulgarity. I would like merely to inquire how this conflict will look when minds, those of supporters and adversaries alike, are no longer subject to the congealing influences of war. And I would like...