Word: coms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marketed through the state, but huge amounts of rice, pork and corn are being diverted from official channels. A state inspector noticed a strange fragrance in the air as he entered the village of Me Tri. Following his nose, he discovered that almost every villager was engaged in baking com -a lightly toasted cooky made of unripe, glutinous rice. Me Tri had developed so flourishing an illegal cooky business that the villagers were even buying rice grain from other cooperatives. Red sleuths found that villagers were also slaughtering pigs for private sale, making moonshine from corn, and illegal noodles from...
Preposterous as the story is, it gives Ronnefeld a fine chance to exercise his talent for musical satire; the score glitters with echoes of half a dozen com posers, from Berg to Bartok. Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana is brilliantly parodied by an offstage male chorus singing a salty Latin text on the mating habits of ants; acidulous Stravinskyan brasses turn up in Act III. The real wonder is that despite the borrowing Composer Ronnefeld's score has a character of its own brash, melodramatic, full of rhythmic fire...
...Catholic school claims for public assistance are not recognized by a large segment of the Catholic public." Historian Edward Gargan, of Chicago's Loyola University, dismissed school aid as "an ephemeral issue." Said he: "To many Catholics, the question of federal aid is a minor issue com pared to the great questions of medical aid for the aged or atomic warfare. Most Catholics, like people of conscience generally, want the President to concentrate on these great issues...
Last week, in a glass-covered court and adjoining gallery of the Bavarian State Graphic Collection, originally designed by Adolf Hitler himself as an annex to the Nazi Brown House, one of the most com prehensive lithograph exhibitions ever assembled opened in Munich. There were Munchs and Noldes. Daumiers and Lautrecs, Chagalls and Picassos. But the real star of the show was one of Munich's own sons. His works are a bit clumsy, and he was not really much of an artist. Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, born in 1771, was lithography's inventor...
...make a go of it, why in hell don't they get out of business? With fewer restrictions, trade in general would be more competitive, and it would no longer be necessary to spend millions to set up foreign subsidiaries." ∙STEEL. "Our industry has survived com petitive situations before," says one big steel executive. "Although this is a tough predicament, we can do it again by pro viding better quality, better service, bet ter technology." ∙OIL. "It is not wage costs between the U.S. and Europe that should be com pared," says Cecil Morgan, Standard...