Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BERKSHIRE THEATER FESTIVAL, Stockbridge, Mass. The Merchant of Venice, July 19-30, performed as it was by the inmates of the Theriesenstadt concentration camp in Nazi Germany in 1943-the costumes are stark prison uniforms and the set is a bare hall in the camp. To be followed by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
...want to increase the tension by making arrests in the middle of a riot." During the arrests that were made, at least one cop seized the opportunity to line his pockets. He cornered a Negro woman suspected of looting, frisked her until she was all but bare from the waist up, found some money and took it, with the explanation: "That's stolen property, you know...
...Westerners, the process sometimes seems as brutal as it is effective. Suspects are encouraged to talk by a rifle fired just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down a Viet Cong...
...Willy Brandt's Social Democrats grabbed 49.5% of the popular vote and 99 seats to the C.D.U.'s 86. The C.D.U.'s ally and coalition partner, t he Free Democratic Party, won 15 seats-enough to allow the C.D.U.-F.D.P. coalition to continue with a bare two-vote majority. Still, the erosion was severe. What had happened...
...heap." It was hardly the way to handle angry workers, and it was probably no coincidence that Gelsenkirchen voters turned more powerfully against the C.D.U. on election night than did any other town. At week's end, Erhard and his lieutenants were undecided whether to continue with a bare-majority coalition government in North Rhine-Westphalia, or to let the Socialists rule as a minority government. Erhard himself is firmly set against a grand coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, for fear that if it is established on the state level, it may become necessary on the federal level...