Word: thing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Communist press is not alone in noting the change-the eager women of the militia, the emaciated girls toiling in the communes as if possessed. To some recent foreign travelers to Communist China, the most striking thing about the women is the pleasure they take in power: they are the real militants of the new order...
...Winter Olympics. Earlier, in properly cold weather, Carol was honored by some 250,000 admirers, who cheered her way up snow-lined lower Broadway. After she had kissed Mayor Robert Wagner Jr. seven, times (once for him, six more times for photographers), His Honor piped: "Best thing that's happened...
...whole thing, explains 47-year-old Composer Cage, was a simple exercise in "indeterminancy." Back in his relatively traditionalist period, Cage composed pieces for percussion orchestras, featuring prepared pianos and weird electronic effects. But now, he says, he has no further interest in "expressing myself. I have no desire to improve on creation." The new object is to surprise not only the audience but the performers and the composer himself. When he was asked to write a piece for the Circle in the Square Composers' Showcase series, Cage sat down and worked out his basic time scheme according...
...McCartan sweated heavily, but kept his head. "All I knew," he said after the game, "is that those guys in jerseys were carrying the puck and coming at me 100 miles an hour. My job was to stop them. If a goalie thinks about their scoring ability, the next thing he's reaching behind him to take the puck...
...dial a number and say: "Hello, FBI? There's a policeman hanging around in front of my house." Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd is nightly impersonated in a minstrel show, puts on blackface and sings: "How I love to pick old massa's cotton." But "the thing I like most," adds Byrd, "is to take this off and be a white man." He tries-but the black will not come away from his face...