Word: consisted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Instead, the 90-odd instrumentalists who attend Marlboro every summer pay $500 apiece for their six-week stay, split up into informal quartets, quintets, or chamber orchestras, depending on what music they want to play. The public concerts are never planned more than a day or two in advance, consist of pieces the resident musicians have chosen by putting their nominations in the suggestion...
...second lecture of the Thursday series will consist of a lecture on "The Problem of Communist China" by Michael Lindsay, Professor of Far Eastern Studies at the School of International Service at the American University. It will be held this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Burr...
...floors consist of 100 cells in a double row of matchboxes-one to a monk. Each is a narrow, barely furnished room of white granular cement applied with a high-pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...
...dress. Leading a languid but deadly charge for the aristocracy was a new and resplendent creature, the dandy (whom the author distinguishes from the mere fop by the social forces that created him). Thomas Carlyle wrote unsympathetically that a dandy is "a Man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of Clothes." He ignored the dandy's first function-to prove, merely by being himself, the unbridgeable distance between the elite and "the great unwashed" (a phrase used by dandified Politician-Author Edward Bul-wer-Lytton to describe literary critics...
...police. This pair of wily thugs equip shifts of demonstrators to parade before the U.S. embassy with slogans suggesting that the latest revolutionary coup is a Communist takeover. The hoax works. Soon U.S. planes are flying the Equatorian "Freedom Fighters" to Washington. The fact that the "resistance heroes" consist mainly of Lopez, Pardo and nightclub floozies scarcely fazes ERRA, the Equatorian Refugee Relief Administration, which is shortly manned by 3,000 paper shufflers. Since "revolutions become habit-forming," Lopez and Pardo vamoose, and the Equatorian girls run away to strip houses to practice "the coldest profession...