Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infected all three branches of the American mission in Vietnam. Junior officials in the field reported the situation as they saw it. Senior officials in Saigon more committed to Diem revised, sanitized, and in some cases buried their dispatches completely. Dissenting officers did not get to talk with visiting brass not have their views heard when they returned to Washington...
...program, it should be noted that the addition of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave Boston its first opportunity to hear Thompson's Last Words of David in its original version with orchestra, and his Frostiana with the orchestration prepared especially for this concert. He uses the winds, brass, and percussion effectively, and treats the strings not only as a body, but as tow choirs that can be separated or combined to produce a rich sound used so rarely in contemporary music...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...strong rebel force, well armed with automatic weapons. Fourteen Simbas were slain, and the mercenaries stared in amazement at their gaudy green uniforms with red epaulettes and a red stripe down the pants. One white mercenary thought the Simbas had been outfitted with the discarded uniforms of a brass band...
...general arens still have. Although my group was familiar with the main currents in social theory, none of them had done extensive readings in the derivative works of direct relevence to developing areas. Hence I think the material covered by every. One is useful not simply, as the Brass Tacks suggests, "for the sake of coherence," but for the further development of skills begun in Social Studies 10. If this is a compromise with the original stated goals of the program, then I think it is a useful step forward. My students certainly needed the still general work on psychological...