Word: brews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building should not awe but embrace man. Instead of overwhelming grandeur in architecture, we should have gentility. And we should have the wish mentally and physically to touch our buildings." Shikataganai. Minoru ("bearing fruit") Yamasaki (roughly, "mountain ledge with great view") does not look like a man who would brew up a storm, but he obviously learned to be tough early. His father, the fourth son of a Japanese farmer, came to Seattle in 1908 after the farm was inherited by an older brother, in accordance with traditional Japanese primogeniture. Yamasaki spent the first years of his life...
...tightening measure intended to save money for national defense, India last week decreed an end to the import of foreign liquor. After existing stocks of Scotch and brandy are used up, Indian drinkers will have to depend on such local specialties as palm wine, rose petal liquor and a brew of saffron musk...
India's experience with prohibition echoes that of the U.S. According to a longtime resident, officially dry Bombay has become a "gigantic distillery where most of the citizens either drink, brew or smuggle in liquor with the kind of know-how that would have made Dutch Schultz green with envy." Speakeasies can be found in luxurious midtown apartments and in one-room shacks on the city's swampy outskirts. Sometimes the booze is genuine Scotch sneaked ashore from visiting freighters; more often it is a strange local concoction with a name like Jungle Flower, which has been distilled...
...fighting began with what Elisabethville residents call "L'Affaire Simba"-a reference to Simba beer, the local brew that both sides guzzled on and off duty. As the U.N. told it, boozed-up Katangese gendarmes suddenly opened fire on a detachment of Ethiopian U.N. troops in suburban Lubumbashi. As Tshombe described matters, a few tipsy Ethiopians started the shooting by scrambling atop a 200-ft. slag heap outside the big Union Miniere plant and taking potshots at the Katangese...
Sarah Caldwell's direction of the excellent orchestra seemed a bit lethargic, and on the whole, this Butterfly offered for Puccini's heady brew a rather weak...