Word: aztec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People Shortage. Freeport's first hotel, the lush, 254-room neo-Aztec Lucayan Beach, opened last January (cheapest room: $37), and its casino-the first in the Bahamas-is kept busy by visitors from Miami. A topnotch 18-hole golf course and country club are completed. Just up the beach, there will be a 500-room Holiday Inn Hotel and a 150-room boatel and marina; other land has been bought for nightspots, motels, office buildings, a shopping center, private homes, a draught-and-rafters English pub. The biggest moneymaker so far is a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal...
Some of the other projects being worked on by ACLS fellowships winners are "The Grammatical Structure of the Aztec Language." "Florentine Politics 1382-1434," "Peacemaking in the Middle Ages," "An Anatomy of Time," "The Historical Relationship between Political Theorists and the Possessors of Political Power...
...exists without formal musical reason. The opening violin cadenza examines every element of the music that follows, preparing the way for a series of studies and variations on the tone-row. The orchestra is enriched by seven percussionists, and the drums, together with unique orchestral colors, create an Aztec mood of sadness, excitement and portent...
Simon Bolivar and Benito Juarez, and write essays contrasting the Aztec and Mayan civilizations...
Heady as Wine. The enormous stage (40,000 sq. yds.) supported such assorted distractions as Aztec temples, adobe huts, palm-tree jungles and a fishing fleet with speckled sails that bobbed in a harbor set at stage left. Dancers and singers, 700 strong, roamed about, some of them equipped with flaring torches. Concealed beneath fishermen's nets, the 120-man Vienna Symphony whipped out the music everyone had come to hear-a froth of billowy, bubbly Viennese tunes, as light and heady as the Nussberger wine that flowed before the performance. Through it all, the tenor sang of love...