Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lovely sunny afternoon in the green valley ot Nam Hoa, about ten miles southwest of Hué, I was with Warrant Officer Ostara, an Australian adviser with the South Viet Nam army, standing on the sloping sides of a recently dug hole. In the bottom were rush mats over sheets of plastics. Ostara drew them back and I saw two bodies dead Vietnamese, with their arms tied behind their backs just above the elbows. They had been shot through the back of the head, the bullet coming ou through the mouth. The faces would have been difficult to recognize...
...them-buzzards and dogs, I suppose. Some had been shot in the head and some hadn't. They had been buried alive, I think. There were sort of scratches in the sand in one place, as if someone had clawed his way out. At Quan Ta Ngan three Australian warrant officers saw seven men in one of three graves they found. The seven, I was told, had been shot one after the other, through the back of the head, hands tied...
...Burana (1936), Orff has steadily pared away the body of Western musical devices-themes, counterpoints, harmonic progressions and so on-to arrive at a skeletal idiom of powerfully primitive, repetitive sounds. In Prometheus, what little melody was left was expertly sung by U.S. Baritone Carlos Alexander as Prometheus and Australian Mezzo Althea Bridges as the tormented lo. The other singers, obscured by grotesque masks and headdresses, declaimed the drama in incantatory drones, while the orchestra rolled along in seemingly endless ostinato figures or erupted with brash punctuations...
BEETHOVEN: SONATA NO. 32 IN C MINOR, OP. 111 (Vanguard). Australian Pianist Bruce Hungerford won critical hurrahs in 1965 when he played five Beethoven sonatas in Carnegie Hall, and the reason is now engraved on vinyl. His interpretation of this late (written five years before the master's death) great two-movement sonata is extremely moving-the first furious buildup dissolving into a tender singing adagio that transcends all that went before...
...would be hard to find a tougher or more tenacious people than Australia's Aborigines. They have to be. Virtually Stone Age nomads, the Aborigine tribes roam naked through the desolate Australian outback, where temperatures in summer often hit 120°. They live off the arid land, eating grubs and roots and maybe, if they get lucky, an occasional lizard or kangaroo. Last week in Tokyo, Lionel Rose, 19, a leathery young Aborigine from Gippsland, Victoria, put his native toughness and tenacity to good use. By outboxing, outpunching and outpointing Japan's Masahiko ("Fighting") Harada over 15 furious...