Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create the impression he had hoped it would: he needed an opportunity to recover prestige. The pre-Inauguration quiet in the United States, the internal machinations in the Soviet Union, and the passing of all the other great figures except Mao Tse-tung, have left the world stage bare. Any move he made now would receive maximum attention...
...epic undertaking, Béjart amassed more than 200 musicians and singers on the circular stage with 80 dancers from 24 nations, ranging from Japan to Jamaica. They performed in bare feet and ballet slippers, melding classical, folk, modern, African and religious dance into a ritualistic tribute to the brotherhood...
Clad in brown, gold, red and white tights, the dancers moved across a starkly lit stage that was virtually bare of scenery. In the first movement they awaken timidly from fetal positions, groping skittishly through the anguish of birth and early life. The playfully exuberant dancing in the scherzo abruptly shifts to an anti-racist theme in the third movement, in which racially mixed couples court and embrace, reject and reconcile. In the triumphant final movement, the entire troupe joyously marches and swirls about the stage while the chorus sings "Alle Menschen werden Brüder [All men become brothers...
...Presidium was in nonstop session-though Nikita knew nothing about it. Ideologist Mikhail Suslov was the major participant, arguing that Khrushchev had outlived his usefulness. A vote was taken, and all were against Nikita. The question was then carried to the full Central Committee, where a majority-but a bare one, some reports indicating as little as one vote-decided against him. Thus the coup makers had precluded the fate of the 1957 "antiparty group," which had mustered a party Presidium majority against Khrushchev only to lose when the vote came in the Central Committee. Dmitry Ustinov, 56, fast-rising...
...however, even the Faculty and Radcliffe lost their infallibility. While the Law School and GSAS-Truman fans just squeaked out a bare majority, the Faculty swung with the University to Dewey. But they really swung. The College gave the Republican "man on the wedding cake" 66% of their vote, but the Faculty gave him 80% and Radcliffe...