Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interspersed among these statements and scenes of life in Chile--a young boy herding cattle on the pampas, the copper mines, a country road--Avenue presents the framework in which the U.P. government operated. Without becoming overly technical, the film gives the basic facts of Chile's history and economy: a history of domination by an elite working closely with American capital, an economy based on the extraction of raw materials and exploitation of cheap labor. In 1969, two-thirds of the Chilean people lived on less than $2 a day; 600,000 children had brain damage from malnutrition...
Some reporters wished he had found other things to do right after the press conference; they had not been able to hear the remarks. "You've got to rein in your boy," Henry Bradsher of the Washington Star told a White House staffer. "These offhand conferences just won't do." It probably is a futile plea. Nobody has been able to rein in Jimmy Carter...
...other failures are raising severe questions about the efficiency, as well as the ethics of Swiss banking. Even some Swiss financiers are charging that Swiss bankers are vastly overrated and that only the constantly climbing Swiss franc makes them appear proficient. "Swiss banking relies on an old-boy network," says a Geneva banker. "That is why there are people in positions of responsibility here who could never get a job in a bank in Germany, Belgium or The Netherlands...
Unpredictable Virago. Ivan's father, an impoverished dandy, died in 1834 when the boy was 16-possibly to get away from his wife. Turgenev's mother was a wealthy, unpredictable virago who alternately punished and indulged her serfs and sons. "Children brought up under a tyranny," observes Pritchett, "spoiled one moment and beaten the next are likely to be evasive and to lead a double life." Ivan, Mama's favorite, always existed on two planes: the imaginative and the real. On the first he succeeded; on the second he foundered for six decades...
...went last week as the New York Philharmonic gave the world premiere of Star-Child, a 33-minute parable for soprano, solo trombone, boy choristers and large-very large-orchestra by American Composer George Crumb. Gimmickry aside, Star-Child turned out to be a work of immense power, daring and, at times, even horror. A requiem of sorts drawn primarily from two anonymous medieval texts, Dies Irae and Massacre of the Innocents, Star-Child is imbued with the same Blake-like contrast of innocence and evil that characterizes much of Crumb's other work, notably Ancient Voices of Children...