Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divide & Drift. All the signs are that he is-and that many Brazilians, disillusioned by what has happened to them since, are ready to take him back, even if they still think he done them wrong. His departure last August shook Brazil to its foundation. Military brass attempted to bar demagogic and leftist Vice President Joāo ("Jango") Goulart from Brasilia's Palace of the Dawn, and for 13 days, Brazil seemed on the edge of a civil war. To keep peace, and to preserve its constitution, the country finally let Goulart take office as President but converted...
...background is the southwestern American desert and a training base for fighter pilots and gunners. In the foreground is a section of the base hospital called Ward 7, known to the top brass as Sunnybrook Farm and to its inmates as Psycho Beach. There Captain Josiah J. Newman, M.D., fights his war against "everything from tics to combat fatigue," depending chiefly on his own central intelligence and flak-juice (Pentothal Sodium) as his principal weapons...
...estimates that it could knock out 70% of any attacking bomber force with interceptors and Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules and BOMARC missiles, it can do nothing at all to stop an enemy missile after it detects one. For that reason General Kuter, in flat disagreement with most Air Force brass, urges speedy development of the Army's controversial Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Says he: "We urgently need something, even though catching the enemy's missiles after he has thrown them and at the last minute is a poor way to play ball...
...Senturia's pared-down orchestra (the Symphony is scored for brass, winds, tympani and 'cellos) provided an admirable accompaniment. The first desk winds handled the fugal introduction to the second psalm with ease, a particularly delicate passage full of grace and restraint, and in the more monolithic third psalm the brasses showed strength and carefully controlled enthusiasm...
...band, and a new group to be called the wind ensemble. The football band is largest of the three groups, and the one most generally known. Its standards of admission are not uncommonly high; the main idea is to get a lot of people out on the field, particularly brass players. The concert band is a cut-down version of the football band. Better balanced among woodwind, brass, and percussion, it plays considerably more than the football medleys and Harvard songs which comprise nearly the total repertoire of the football band. Concert marches, tone poems, suites, and light classical works...