Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ever since four blithe spirits from Liverpool turned the world upside down, the most visible pop singers have been those who have dealt with contemporary moods and issues. Simultaneously trend setters and chroniclers of an era, they sing of grass, alienation and oppression. The very names of those who have made it are slogans of rebellion: the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Wayne Newton . . . Wait a minute-Wayne Newton? Isn't he that big, baby-faced panda, that tenor with adenoidal arrest and the grin that seems to tell you he just made all-state halfback at Waycross High? Where...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS. A Student strike is in progress. In front of the student union, a rock band is playing and a crowd lounges on the grass in a holiday mood. But the atmosphere is even more festive and more exciting inside. For here, the unique heady sense of joint action has taken hold, the camaraderie of the common cause. Tables where coeds sell pamphlets-Marx, Marcuse, Che. Other tables with various buttons and badges of dissent. Posters. Proclamations-demands addressed to the President of the United States, to the Governor of the state, the spelling a trifle erratic...
...social-action agency, the Christian life commission, went through with a 15% increase, despite conservative complaints about past ventures by the commission (including an invitation to a Playboy spokesman last March to participate in a forum on the new morality). As the week wore on, however, grass-roots resentment built up steadily; finally it exploded when the meeting took up Volume I of a projected twelve-volume Bible commentary published by the SBC's Sunday-school board in Nashville...
...landscape painter worthy of the name had to take his nature raw. "You cannot experience a landscape until you have known all its discomforts," he said. "You have to curse, fight mosquitoes, fall over rocks and skin your knees, be stung by nettles, scratched by grasshopper grass and pricked by brambles before you have really experienced the world of nature." He braved winter winds and rainstorms to sketch outdoors. One March day, inspired by a "glorious thaw," he trudged out to a nearby woods and had hardly set up his easel when a thunderstorm came up. "I decided nothing...
...FRIEND picked me up at the San Diego airport last Christmas and drove me 15 miles to where I live. As I got out of the car, I saw my little brother watering the green grass under a blue...