Word: cara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolution. By week's end the insurgents possessed a kind of legislature - the 70-man All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety. They also had an executive, "united unto death"-a three-man supreme junta composed of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, Paratroop General Jacques Massu, and slight, intense Mohammed Sid Cara, a Moslem physician who served as Secretary for Algerian Affairs in the last government...
...Hollywood, during a brief slip into the meandering footprints of his late convivial father, Actor John Barrymore Jr., 25, was nabbed for being drunk and disturbing the peace at 1 a.m. while tiffing with wife Cara in his parked car. He drew a $100 fine and a 90-day jail stretch that was suspended provided he spends his next three weekends in jail. Said Junior later: "I tried some rum concoctions and they tasted like punch. They didn't act that way. I'm through with liquor...
Olivia, attractive outgoing, and perhaps sixteen, enters Miss Julie's small school in the country, where she quickly becomes everybody's favorite. She discovers student loyalty is divided between Miss Julie and Miss Cara, an attractive co-directress of the school. The girls, aged ten to twenty, all in dismal grey uniforms and knee socks, correctly type Olivia as a probable Miss Julie supporter; Olivia not only supports, but falls completely in love with her heady, bewitching principal...
...overwhelmed girl finds herself the center of a confused interplay of secret attachments, disguised affections, and loyalty conflicts between teachers and pupils in a community where Miss Julie is an unwilling, latter-day Sappho. Miss Cara dies myteriously of an overdose of sleeping drops: was it suicide over losing Olivia's affections? Miss Julie leaves school, telling Olivia emotionally that her life has been a constant fight against letting her feelings triumph over her social conscience; that she has lost the fight, and rather than be descreet, prefers to go away. And Olivia rides off in a carriage with...
...group of seven dances and secular vocal pieces, most attractive was Non e tempo d'aspettare byMarco Cara, one of the chief musicians at Isabella's Mantuan court. It was played here by lute and viol. The performance of vocal pieces by an instrumental ensemble is a perfectly authentic Renaissance practice...