Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After 307 years of colonial rule, Jamaica, biggest and richest of the British West Indies, goes its independent way Aug. 6. Last week the island's voters chose the government that will steer them through the first days of independence...
...most striking side to this music is its intensity, the quality magnifies the problem of relating the kinds of feeling the music advances with one another. Moevs chose to separate his basic musical ideas into four movements. A brusque second movement and a flighty fourth are each largely homogeneous, and the first movement alternates perfunctory quavers with grinding quartertones. But the third delves into matters more serious and varied. It combines the brutality common to the other movements with an intense thoughtfulness and ends with an untroubled relaxation. By this excellent juxtaposition Moevs gave this central movement a prominence...
...Matter of Esthetics. On a more modest scale, Architect Gordon Bunshaft, chief designer for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, also had a problem with paintings. His were Picasso, Miro, Modigliani, Dubuffet, and they all had to be fitted into his five-room rental apartment on East 66th Street. He chose "neutral" furnishings "to let the paintings do the coloring." To create more space, Bunshaft removed a wall separating the entranceway from the dining area. His TV set is placed behind a sliding Dubuffet, and from behind a Miro comes the sound of his hi-fi speaker. By using stainless steel, Formica...
...Hiss case, in which the freshman Congressman used a seat on the Un-American Activities Committee to ensure the conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury. He built on his success a reputation for finding subversives, and so it was that General Eisenhower, who hardly knew him in 1952, chose him as a running mate able to push the first two anti-Truman planks in the Republican platform. Communism, corruption, Korea; the General attended to the third...
...match game is no game for a blind man. Player A could have easily crushed Player B by simply taking one match from the row below [leaving 2-2-1] instead of the two matches he chose in move three. The move made was as disastrous as the system suggested by Movie Critic Bosley Crowther. He can come to my bar and play his system for drinks any time he wants to; I would not need much money...