Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia was nearly deserted when Justice Minister Milton Campos walked briskly up to the speaker's platform. Brazilian Congressmen rarely listen to speeches with more than half an ear, much less to a routine government spiel. It was far from that. "The government," announced Campos, "wants elections. It wants them clean, authentic, democratic, and it will promote them with full guarantees of liberty...
...theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth chamber group...
Restoration v. Reabolition. On the other hand, no one yet has the slightest evidence suggesting how many people who never commit murder are in fact deterred by the death penalty. The electric chair* thus remains in 23 states and the District of Columbia, the gas chamber in ten states, the noose in six, the firing squad in one (Utah). Indeed, ten abolitionist states have restored the death penalty in the past, usually after some brutal crime. Missouri did so in 1919, for example, after two hoodlums killed two policemen in a gunfight. Conversely, Oregon provided abolitionists with an unexpected argument...
...Oregon was so sold on abolition once more that the idea won the full support of the state's leading clergymen, newspapers, politicians, law-enforcement officers and finally the voters, who killed the death penalty (gas chamber) by nearly 5 to 3 in a referendum last November. Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney George Van Hoomissen summed up Oregon's attitude: "The specter of an innocent man unjustly executed is constantly in my mind...
...with opera began in his boyhood back home in Muncie, Ind., when he tuned in Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on two radios -for the stereophonic effect-then accompanied the Met singers on his piano. Since then, while teaching composition at Columbia University, he has written four operas, several orchestral and chamber works...