Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to some critics, Orff devotes so much attention to choreography, staging, and what he calls "language power" that he slights musical values. But the accusation bothers genial Composer Orff not at all. "I belong to no school," says he. "It doesn't give me a headache...
...future hopes and fears both center on the immensity of its population-415 million people. India's population, second only to Red China's, is greater than all of South America, Africa and Australia put together. Indians speak more than 700 languages or dialects and belong to at least seven distinct racial types, from the tall, leathery, light-eyed Punjabi of the north to the frail, black-skinned Tamil of the south. Most of India's millions are underfed, badly housed and racked by disease. The average life expectancy of an Indian at birth is 32 years...
Harvard's Board of Overseers has now taken the position that its students should belong to or support any group advocating overthrow of the Constitution by force and violence...
...November 25, the American bishops of the Catholic Church charged that a "systematic and concerted" propaganda effort favoring birth control had started. Since that time, the population problem has become a heated political issue. Two possible Presidential candidates, senator John F. Kennedy and Edmund "Pat" Brown, belong to the Catholic Church, which opposes and types of coercive birth control; other candidates have expressed views favoring population limitation...
...have "trumped, tricked, fabricated" previous elections in Algeria. Alluding to the "facility of General de Gaulle's language," he insisted on the "integrity of the Algerian national territory." Although de Gaulle has made vague proposals for regional referenda in Algeria (concerning independence), Chaalal said that the Sahara oil resources belong to Algeria, and that the country must gain freedom "as a whole...