Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biafra already has selected its own national anthem-modeled after Finlandia -and Ojukwu hopes to write the words himself. Though the international community has so far given no recognition to the new regime, Biafra is potentially a viable economic and political state. It produced $250 million worth of crude oil last year and also exports coal and palm-oil products. Gowon faces no mean task in forcing the rebel regime back into the union, especially since leaders in both his Mid-Western and Western regions, including the influential Chief Obafemi Awolowo, have shown no enthusiasm for military action against...
...years, Al Meadows, 68, built General American Oil Co. into one of the nation's leading crude-oil producers, with affiliates in Europe and Canada, controls it with stock worth $68 million. "In oil and real estate, sometimes I've made $500,000 in a day-never made a really bad deal," he boasted. "Al operated on the same code in buying art that he did in oil," says one of Meadows' closest friends. "A man's word and handshake were good enough...
...familiar Anglo-Saxon phrase, for example, was accompanied by a subtitle that read Mon anus royal Irlandais! Other subtitles, which by necessity were shortened to keep pace with the spoken dialogue, carried little of the poetic fantasy and whimsy of Joyce's writing. Apparently offended more by the crude translations than by the content, some members of the audience cried "Shameful!" "Indecent...
...continues, the marriage between art and technology is by no means complete. Since artists are mostly self-taught technicians, Tuchman has been discussing with several North American groups and corporations the establishment of artistic-industrial workshops. In time, Tuchman believes, the work on display at Los Angeles will appear "crude, halting and incomplete," compared with tomorrow's wonders...
...production of A Midsummer Night's Dream which opened at the Loeb last night is a crude attempt at a play unequaled in ripeness of language and plain good heart in Shakespeare or English. The show is as disasterous as misdirection can make it, which is to say that it is still a fair evening's entertainment...