Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...therefore appear to be self-policing,"writes Teller. "Actually, a nuclear test is easily noticed only if it is performed in the most obvious manner. There can be no doubt that if a nation wants to carry out tests in secrecy, observation will become difficult and uncertain. In the contest between the bootlegger and the police, the bootlegger has a great advantage...
When it comes to fiddling, there is hardly a more important contest in the world than Poland's two-week Wieniawski Violin Competition.* The contest opened in Poznan this year with 45 contestants from eleven countries (including five Americans) bowing away at each other. On hand were 17 judges, eleven from Iron Curtain countries. In a rigorous round (unaccompanied Bach sonatas and Wieniawski caprices), almost half the contestants were eliminated. Two stood out; it would be a contest between a U.S. and a Russian violinist...
...understanding. In contrast, the Soviet system imposes upon the great mass of its workers a harsh, menacing discipline which drives blindly but inevitably toward concentration on new weapons, including missiles and atomic warheads. The Communists have also enlarged their industrial capacity and dared the West to a world economic contest...
Saito gives the ultimatum: work or die. To his astonishment, Nicholson calmly chooses to die, and his officers with him. Saito is forced to spare them, a fearful loss of face. And so begins a contest of chivalries-Bushido v. What England Expects-that hilariously exposes the ridiculous in what men fight for, and subtly reveals the sublime...
...business becomes a big and discerning patron of contemporary art may still be a good way off, but it moved a little closer last week. For its fourth international art contest, Hallmark Cards had made eminently sensible rules. The 50 contestants, from a total of 16 countries, were all invited to compete with a free choice of subject matter. The results, on view at Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery, therefore combined quality with diversity...