Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seen Pull My Daisy by Jack Kerouac [with Beat Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky in the cast] can agree with the distorted impression you have given of it in your Dec. 14 issue. You have completely neglected to mention that Putt My Daisy is an attempt at spontaneous movie making and does not pretend to be anything else. You attempt to compare it to a home movie because the narrator speaks for the characters; yet even your obvious attempt to make Kerouac's prose seem humorous cannot dim its haunting poetic quality...
...Massachusetts and the nation. In the Senate, Kennedy has been a thoughtful middle-reader, with a highly independent record and a special interest in labor reform. At the 1956 Democratic Convention he was chosen to make a nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson, then was swirled up in the great attempt to stop Tennessee's Estes Kefauver from getting the vice-presidential nomination, missed getting the nomination himself by a thin 38½ votes. Since his re-election to the Senate by a record Massachusetts vote in 1958, he has waged a tireless, continuous campaign in all 50 states...
...conqueror of Mount Everest, New Zealand's beekeeping Sir Edmund Hillary, was again planning to get above it all in the high Himalayas. Grubstaked with a tidy $200,000 from Chicago Publisher Bailey Howard (World Book Encyclopedia), Sir Edmund will attempt the most grueling mountaineering feat ever tried-to climb hazardous Mount Makalu (27,790 ft. and the world's fifth highest peak) without benefit of oxygen equipment. To prepare for the endeavor, Hillary and the other climbers plan to winter at 20,000 ft. Along the way Sir Edmund hopes to bump into an Abominable Snowman (TIME...
After completing the sixth ballot in its attempt to elect a Mayor, the Cambridge City Council acknowledged its stalemate, as Councilor Edward A. Crane '35 held his four votes and various independents split up the other five. The Council then adjourned until next Monday...
...Bruins' scoring punch rests in only a few men and their bench is one of the thinnest in the East, they play tight, defensive hockey. While they don't pack their goal as weak teams, like Cornell and Tufts, are wont to do, they practice little forechecking, and attempt to pick up the opponents' wings at center...