Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creamily: "Universal suffrage, in placing the Communist Party clearly at the head of all other parties, gave us the right to demand [the premiership] for a Communist . . . The attitude of official circles seems to make this impossible for the moment. In this situation, I have proposed that the President call a Socialist...
Chavez conducted the big orchestra with broad-backed, muscular energy ("An orchestra is heavy on the wrists," he sighed, "like a man driving a huge span of horses attached to a heavy coach"). The music began with portentous thunder, answered by a piping call on the piccolo clarinet and a burbling of other woodwinds. Twice the movement plodded ponderously up harmonic mountains -and, triumphantly, gave glimpses of wide vistas on the other side. The second movement went along at a dashing, rustic gallop, while the third strutted with the bravado of a teen-ager unaware of being observed. Some...
Sullivan: Music to Shakespeare's Tempest (Vienna Orchestral Society, conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). The composer of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, etc. finished this music in the freshness of his 20th year, and caused his betters to call him a second Mendelssohn. It is easy to see why, although admirers of his operettas will not complain about his later career...
...matter," said the directive, "whether you leave school now and go to work, or stay in school a while longer and work afterwards. What counts is what you are doing for the fatherland." In short: get to work. The People's Daily dutifully chimed in with a call for educating "students' parents in the glory of labor." Radio Peking added soothingly: "Many comrades in the rank and file of our revolutionary columns had no prior school education...
...alternatives for the transgressor, how dangerous are all absolutes for his judges. It asks at what point cracking up might be forgivable, and how far a moment of capitulation must cancel out a lifetime of loyalty. And in particular, Time Limit! inquires how far Communist brainwashing might call for revised standards of judgment...