Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successive nights the fans demanded encores from Buffy sainte Marie, a University of Massachusetts graduate who represents "good" and the cause of the American Indian in a trembling, affected and poorly accompanied voice. Simultaneously, they ignored the amazing performance of Chicago blues giant Howling Wolf and the musical genious of Ali Akbar Kahn, sarod player of India...
...this context, the Gandhian doctrine of nonviolence espoused by Martin Luther King is in danger of crumbling. Last week James Meredith, the lone wolf whose ambush on Highway 51 persuaded other civil rights leaders to convert his solitary stroll into a mass march, declared that Negroes should at least defend themselves. SNCC's Carmichael admitted: "I have never rejected violence"-even though the word nonviolent is enshrined in the name of his organization. Says CORE's Director Floyd McKissick: "The greatest hypocrisy we have is the Statue of Liberty. We ought to break the young lady...
Died. Blanche Wolf Knopf, 71, president of Alfred A. Knopf publishing house and wife of Board Chairman Alfred A. Knopf, who worked tirelessly for 51 years to bring the firm to its current prestigious place, personally garnering such luminaries as Freud, Sartre and Camus, as well as mystery writers Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...viewer, months shrink into moments full of rich detail. Miguel encounters and narrowly escapes a rattlesnake, goes with his brother on a hunt for a predatory bobcat, adopts a newborn orphan during the hectic lambing season of spring, rescues a flock of strays from a snarling wolf pack. Perhaps the most rewarding adventure of all is the boy's first day of real work when the shearers come, his triumph when he is invited to leave the waiting women and children and join the joking men at supper...
...literal adaptation of the novel. The late Ben Hecht had three bashes at it. It was then completely rejiggered by Billy Wilder, who in turn got rewritten by Joe (Catch-22) Heller. To no avail. By last week the script du jour was the product of Terry Southern, Wolf Mankowitz and John Law. Except that Peter Sellers has winged most of his scenes, John Huston is redoing his, and Woody Allen is working up an altogether new concept...