Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week in the Delta, among fields of tender spring-rice shoots, cadres of women peasants-many of whom had never performed farm labor before the Communists took over-hacked at ditches with picks and hoes, hauling off the heavy clay in baskets. To dramatize the pathos of the forced migration, Red River peasants had made up a song: Carrying a sack of rice, a wife says goodbye to her husband, And sadly cries: "I love you very much, You who have to go far to the mountain region Of Cao Bang...
...listen, listen, listen to the music, and then it comes," he says. The music suggests how the ballet begins and ends, perhaps, the number of dancers, the costumes. "But only when the dancers are on the stage and I am with them can I begin. You have only the clay, and you work on it, molding it, changing it, shaping it until you have what you want...
Ripley, in fact, hasn't lost an intercollegiate match this season, and he probably has to be given a slight edge today. Penn's home courts are concrete, and Reese may be at a disadvantage moving from hard-surface courts to the clay at Soldiers Field...
Unlike his teammate Reese, Kolker is at home only on clay courts; Ripley smashed him 6-1, 6-1 last year on the hard surface at Penn. Benjamin, too, is largely a back-court player, though he can hit with power; his size (5'8") makes it easy for an opponent...
Heavyweight boxing champion Mohammed Ali, better known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, was to appear on the same program last night, but failed to appear for reasons unknown...