Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flamboyant version of Berg's violently atonal Lulu, becomes a demure turtledove in Schumann's Fair Little Flower. Thomas Stewart, memorable for his dour and doomed Wotan, pours out Stephen Foster's Hard Times Come Again No More with as much authority as any cotton-pick-in' baritone in the business...
...FOOTBALL (CBS, 9:30 to conclusion). Green Bay Packers v. Dallas Cowboys, live from Cotton Bowl, Dallas...
...listened to his promise to "humanize" the bureaucracy, promote a "Year of Education" and declare war on inflation. He did manage to slash the annual rate of inflation from 40% to 25%. The nation's gross national product edged up by 5%. Brazil's trade in coffee, cotton and other agricultural products came into balance...
...American policy is "counterrevolutionary," and that therefore democratic decision-making is irrelevant to decisions about ROTC because there are no decisions to be made. The SDS letter maintains that because belonging to ROTC is immoral, a student has no right to do something immoral, i.e., join ROTC. Visions of Cotton Mather! Or, indeed, George Wallace, a proponent of similar doctrines of absolute truth...
...many of the strikers, the union represents the first chance to establish a settled, reasonably stable community. Like a number of California's two million Mexican-Americans, Munoz was born in Mexico, but came to this country when he was thirteen to join the stream of migrant fruit and cotton harvesters. Whether migrating, or working at seasonal labor in the Delano area, he had no job security, no defense against the high risk of injury in the fields. One of the union's first moves was to write a life insurance policy for every member, and each union contract signed...