Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blocks in operatic history. In 1951, for example, he was so desperate to get out of a commissioned job from NBC television that he offered to give back his $5,000 fee. "Nothing doing," said NBC, and Menotti eventually came up with that bright and sturdy Christmas evergreen, Amahl and the Night Visitors. All told, Menotti has been cornered by circumstances enough times to produce a larger number of effective popular operas than any composer since Puccini and Strauss...
...third section shows some scenes in Mexico, Tangier, and Europe, the trips abroad before Kerouac and Ginsberg returned to the United States to be famous after the publication of Howl. On the Road Evergreen Review No. 2, and The New American Poetry. The last picture in this final section, a picture of a sullen Kerouac in Tangier, has a caption below it that is prophetic: "At that time I sincerely believed that the only decent activity in the world was to pray for everyone, in solitude... At that very moment, the manuscript of On the Road was being linotyped...
...most celebrated obscenity matter now before the court-two cases involving the Swedish film, I Am Curious (Yellow). Though he gave no reason, the film is distributed by Grove Press which recently paid Douglas $200 tor the right to print excerpts from his controversial book, Points of Rebellion, in Evergreen magazine...
Douglas has issued the State a grave warning, and it is almost comical to see how "public voices" are responding. One of House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's major arguments against the essay is that excerpts from it appeared in "Evergreen Review." Ford termed the magazine "full of hardcore pornography," and thought it outrageous that a Supreme Court Justice should allow his name to appear in such a journal. James Reston devoted one of his thrice-weekly columns to an attack against Points of Rebellion, calling it "a misdemeanor." To underscore which side of the political spectrum Reston is leaning...
...Study of Democratic Institutions. He also expressed outrage at the most recent of Douglas' 30 books, Points of Rebellion, saying that it gave "legitimacy to the militant hippie-yippie movement." Ford observed that he was infuriated chiefly because excerpts of the book appeared in the current issue of Evergreen magazine. They were preceded by photographs of nudes that Ford called "hardcore pornography," and took pains to show to his ogling colleagues during his speech...