Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father of three, shot and wounded a youth who had attacked him with a hammer. He was surrounded by an angry mob of Negroes and stomped, hacked and shot to death. Sentenced to life in prison were Gail Madden, 22, a 250-pounder, whom witnesses identified as the woman in a bright orange dress who stomped Gleason, and George Merritt, 24, who attacked the officer with a meat cleaver. Five of those who were freed had been identified by a witness whose poor eyesight made his testimony worthless. During the trial, some witnesses recanted their testimonv, allegedly because of threats...
...easy. I'm not like all you ... all those people who had it so easy.' " Gloria is now persona non grata among the Nixon entourage, but else where she is in much demand. Her mail and phone calls one recent week included offers to: work as a woman's newscaster on a national network, collaborate on setting her interview with Pat Nixon to music, write the introduction to a German movie on sex education, appear on ABC's The Dating Game, work with a studio on a movie based on her life, and cohost, with Senator...
...next 15 years or so, he managed to pour out Masses, passions, oratorios and a large share of the 350 cantatas he is believed to have written (of which 224 survive). Yet Bach's listeners remained unimpressed. At the first performance of his St. Matthew Passion, one puritanical woman in the congregation cried out in dismay: "Heaven help us! It might be an opera...
White Against Black. Through the centuries, Cochin's Jews have adopted many Indian religious traditions. Mortar for the walls of their synagogue was mixed with coconut water, which Hindus use for sacred occasions. The ceremonial dress of a Cochin Jewish woman is a heavy gold brocade sarong and blouse, worn by Malabar Indian women at weddings. But the Cochin Jews have stoutly preserved their religious Orthodoxy, even though the community so far as it is known has never had a rabbi. (Many isolated Jewish colonies in India get along without rabbis...
...forgiven Ruskin his glaring sin of omission and settled down as just another glum Victorian helpmeet. But Ruskin, though a recognized genius and cultural lion, hated to go to parties (which Effie loved), could not bear to be disturbed at his work (Effie seemed to regard interruption as a woman's prerogative), and always said "I" instead of "we" when talking of their plans for anything. Worse, he plainly preferred his parents' company to her own. "All their conversation," she wrote, acidly describing an evening with her in-laws, "was about themselves and John's early signs...