Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glass's five hour opera "Einstein on the Beach," indicates his solution to that problem. The basic text of the opera is a sequence of numbers and the names of the notes. "That way, the structure and content of the piece are identical," Glass said...
...State Department official was content to say that Vietnam "was their problem now." In seeing Vietnam only as a semi-satellite nation of the Soviet Union, U.S. diplomats repeat, in an updated, streamlined, fully modern form, the same mistake of seeing Vietnam as a pawn of the Superpowers that got the U.S. involved in the war in the first place. During the war the U.S. sought to "save" the South to "contain" China. Now the whole region is seen only as a playpen for the client nations of the two Communist superpowers. The legitimate bilateral concerns that...
...inevitable result was the summer of double-digit dis content, followed by Stage II. Announcing it, Carter conceded that the tom-toms reverberating from the Oval Office in the past had signaled anything but a determined anti-inflationary policy. The regulators who he now suggests are out of control are Carter appointees. The budget that he says is too big is a Carter budget. But the good news is that the President pro fesses at last to recognize the problems and to have learned from past misjudgments...
...such an appropriate setting. And in the last shots--after the mother is dead and buried and the new wife properly installed--the tranquility of the ocean and the family is so simple a device it seems merely trite. Allen adheres so closely to a unity of form and content that his film becomes artsy, rather than...
...according to the agreement, Firestone will have less than 60 days to begin notifying owners by mail, television, radio and print. Claybrook says that NHTSA will keep a close watch on the notification campaign: "We will not leave it up to Firestone to determine the amount or the content of the advertising." Amid all else, Firestone is worried about reports that some people have begun rummaging through dumps in search of 500s that could conceivably be turned in for new 721s. The company alerted dealers to start asking questions if someone wheels in with a whole truckload of 500s...