Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loyal to Premier Ky. Soon all the sound and fury of incipient civil war had enveloped the crucial northern base town: the clank of tank treads, the rattle of sniper fire, the sodden plop of tear-gas grenades, the sudden sky-shaking roar of strafing aircraft. Danang's chaotic clangor had its echoes in Saigon, where Buddhist demonstrators took fitfully to the streets-only to be dispersed by tough, green-clad riot cops. But beneath the sound and fury, the basic directions of the conflict were quite clear and quite chilling...
...from nature, he feels that his work seeks to penetrate if more profoundly. "I am trying," he says, "to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of ugliness and horror. I am trying to call attention to the balanced, not the chaotic side of life-to be constructive, not destructive...
...Ever since the U.S. began experimenting with daylight-saving time in 1918, the nation during the spring, summer and fall has turned itself into a chaotic crazy quilt of conflicting time patterns. Eighteen states observe D.S.T. on a uniform statewide basis. In another 18 states, individual communities decide for themselves whether or not they will follow D.S.T. and set for themselves the dates on which it goes into and out of effect. Fourteen other states, including almost the entire South, remain on standard time all year long...
Some of the blame for all the wasted mugs and chestnuts must go to director Billy Wilson. He's a professional, but Pudding shows clearly aren't his style. Many of the dance numbers were far too tricky not to be chaotic. And despite the dead script he should have been able to put a few of the jokes over...
...Your Essay on divorce law [Feb. 11] is a most articulate and fair summation of this chaotic legal circus. The tragedy of an unhappy marriage is multifaceted; too often the legality of dissolving it only compounds the felony. Let us hope our state legislators will take a fresh, reasonable and realistic new look at this sensitive area...