Word: ai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words of 8th century Chinese Poet Li T'ai-Po had special poignance for Gustav Mahler in 1907. Aware that he was dying of a heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom...
...first half Brown had opened several small leads over the sluggish Crimson on the shooting of guards Billy Reynolds and AI Fishman...
...miles out, the cyclists were slowed briefly by government troops retrieving the bodies of a dozen Viet Cong who had been killed trying to cross the road an hour before. The pack quickly resumed its pace, wheeling over the misty Ai Van Pass to Hué thence to the Ben Hai bridge at the edge of the DMZ. There the racers turned around, headed back to Hué, then on to Danang. Only 16 of the starters finished, but miraculously none of the dropouts were kidnaped, and there was not a single Viet Cong ambush...
Royko had no intention of making' journalism a career until he landed in the Ai" Force. Threatened with a job as cook or MP at Chicago's O'Hare Air Force Base, he stumbled onto the fact that the base newspaper needed an editor and talked his way into the job. It didn't last long. He wrote a story about a softball pitcher whose tour of duty had been extended so that he could play in a championship game. When the expose appeared, the base commander shut down the paper and transferred Royko to officers...
...second was Wang Yu-ts'ai, who stole a pair of rubber shoes. While on a working assignment, he once ate an extra bun stuffed with meat, and the Deputy Commander fiercely shouted at him: "Who gave you permission to eat that extra bun?" Later, his old disease, epilepsy, broke out twice as a result of these emotional disturbances. Wang took his own life...