Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Significantly, both works had their premieres in large, barnlike fairground buildings rather than on normal concert stages. In Gruppen, three orchestral groups totaling 109 players curve around three sides of the audience; in Carre, four groups of 20 players each, plus eight to twelve singers, face outward from a central circle. Both compositions fill the air with hard-edged blocks of dissonance that collide, clash and splinter with a force that is almost visual. The ultimate result is not unlike life in a crowded tenement building, with many windows open and a blaring radio in each apartment...
SILENCE ON MONTE SOLE, by Jack Olsen. In the fall of 1944, Nazi SS death squads rounded up, shot down, grenaded and then burned more than 1,800 inhabitants of the villages around Monte Sole in north central Italy. Author Olsen performs a journalistic tour de force as he records this atrocity, which was only a footnote to the story of the Italian campaign...
...restoring the National Security Council as the prime policymaking body. His first important post-Inauguration meeting was with the N.S.C. and its principal advisers: Presidential Assistant Henry Kissinger, General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Richard Helms, who is being retained as director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...almost every area to which our attention has turned, we have repeatedly encountered one fundamental problem: the absence of some central authority within the university that is fully equipped to respond to demands, anticipate problems, formulate policies, and co-ordinate university efforts with respect to matters that implicate the community. There is, in our opinion, no change more important than in improving the organizational capacity of the university to deal with its environment...
Specifically, the university is insufficiently staffed and inadequately organized to respond in a deliberate, timely, and constructive fashion to community demands. Such a response we suggest, is possible only if some central agency within the university is given the responsibility, status, and staff sufficient to speak authoritatively for the university on community matters...