Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...have been tormented with the desire for possession," wrote a languishing millionaire in 1921. "I am still in the position of a young man sitting on the rocks on a fine moonlight night in summer, holding the hand of a pretty girl and having a great desire to kiss her, but dare not do so." The passionate metaphorist. Frank Bemis, merely wanted to buy a particularly fine First Folio Shakespeare (he finally did, for $30,000), and his was the kind of passion only one bookseller could inspire...
...G.O.P.'s future is not all moonlight and magnolias. Early Republican surges have frightened Democrats into shirtsleeve activity. After Nixon's Greensboro triumph, for instance, Kennedy put on a Washington lunch for 60 North Carolina editors. He plans to visit the state twice this fall; Johnson will speak four times. Most dangerous obstacle at the moment for Republicans will be Southern school reopenings with concurrent integration and possible trouble, notably in New Orleans. Federal action, no matter the justice of it, could seriously damage what chances Nixon may have in a South that still remembers Little Rock...
...fraternities and sororities, jazzed up band and football uniforms, hired Count Basic and Woody Herman for spring proms. When he introduced the trimester system this summer, he spiced the package with a noncredit term touring Europe after the junior year. To make Parsons a summer festival, he staged a moonlight Mississippi cruise. Soon due: a summer semester-end blowout, complete with genuine Indians holding up a stagecoach, and contests to choose a Miss Frontier and catch a greased pig. The freshman dropout rate has fallen...
...boldly do the Singapore kidnapers strike that the millionaires have given up favorite haunts: no more nights at the Tanjong Rhu club over cool drinks and mah-jongg, no more rides home on a quiet road where moonlight filters through acacia and tulip trees. To protect themselves, some millionaires, like the movie-mogul Shaw brothers, reportedly pay regular tribute to the underworld. Others have bought barbed wire and snarling watchdogs. A few take the precaution of calling ahead to their destination whenever they go out, and if they fail to arrive on time, an alarm is sounded...
...project failed to win the support of the necessary 66⅓% of voters in a referendum. He also urged U.S. and British church leaders to make Canterbury Cathedral a Protestant "Vatican" at a cost of $25 million, including hidden lighting that would give the effect of sunrise, sunset and moonlight. The flamboyant Red dean, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, said he "had dreamed of a project like this for 40 years," but the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, called the idea "unacceptable and abhorrent." Another dream, pending since 1958, is the construction of two 100,000-ton economy style transatlantic liners...