Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the curtain rose on Mozart's Don Giovanni at Spoleto, Italy, last week, the traditional 17th century Spanish capes and courtyards were missing. Instead, singers in vaguely funereal costume drifted through bare spaces that seemed to recede into infinities of aquamarine. Massive bands of grey rock jutted around and above them. The eerie landscape was punctuated by spare, brooding pieces of sculpture: a huge, reclining nude in gleaming green; two spiky, dead-white trees; labyrinthine arch forms like vast bleached bones; a series of angular, menacing mummies...
...Wants. The hippie philosophy also borrows heavily from Henry David Thoreau,* particularly in the West Coast rural communes, where denizens try to live the Waldenesque good life on the bare essentials-a diet of turnips and brown rice, fish and bean curd -thus refuting the consumerism of "complicating wants" essential to the U.S. economy. Historically, the hippies go all the way back to the days of Diogenes and the Cynics (curiously, no rock combo has yet taken the name), who were also bearded, dirty and unimpressed with conventional logic...
...preventing a bare-knuckled brawl for the presidency, Ky and Thieu seem to have assured a relatively honest election. They have also made certain that the unity of the armed forces will be preserved; military officers will no longer have to worry about losing their jobs for backing the wrong man. To be sure, some South Vietnamese were disturbed by the prospect of continued rule by the military men who have run the country for the past two years. But most U.S. officials are convinced that at the present stage of South Viet Nam's political development, and with...
...British House of Commons, just before it filled up one day in 1867 for a lively debate on a bill to tax dog owners, a bare quorum bothered to vote on the legislation that created a confederation out of three Canadian colonies. Canadians made no special fuss over the event. Now they are making up for their initial apathy. All year long they have been celebrating their centennial...
...possibility of commodity shortages not only panicked European housewives, who in many places swept shelves bare of sugar and spices, but also sent excited shivers through the world's commodities markets. Futures prices went up sharply on tin, rubber, sugar, grains and potatoes...