Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central committee tent where party leaders held political discussions with all comers. A horse-drawn street theater had a cart full of guillotine-bound "Communards" hurling defiance at costumed cavalrymen; the purpose was to commemorate the 1871 Paris Commune, which controlled the city for 71 days before its primitive brand of Communism was crushed by troops...
...leading win percentage in the Ivy League last year), Harvard's baseball squad will be faced with a tough act to follow. The Crimson not only won the Greater Boston League title, the Eastern League title, 26 games, and the NCAA District I crown, it played a professional brand of ball that won praise and respect in all aspects of the game. Sound pitching, fielding, hitting, running, and strategy created more than a successful squad. It produced a team that truly deserved to rank with the best in the nation at the Omaha World Series...
While the city ruminates on its revised history, the fire will be commemorated in a concert on the lawn of the Chicago Historical Society by the Chicago Chamber Orchestra Association, which will offer its own brand of fireworks: Haydn's "Fire" Symphony, Handel's Royal Fireworks Music, Ives' Fireman's Parade on Main Street and Dittersdorf's The Fall of Phaethon (about a god who burned to death...
...then it was well again." As usual in an Ibsen scene, opera glasses are not needed to recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported social realism from the novel and invented modern prose drama (A Doll's House, Ghosts). Then he passed on to the great pagan passion plays of his old age (The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf...
...brusque treatment they received from Washington "has been a revelation for the Japanese," says Katsuyuki Ochi, political editor of Japan's leading financial daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun. "They now realize that the international stage is a much colder place than they had imagined, and that sentimentalism of any brand has little role to play in the pursuit of national interests...