Word: departing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born, and two of them said they did not want to go home. The Cabinet also designated three exit points for foreign troops. Some 800 U.S. military advisers with the Royal Laotian Army will leave via Vientiane; North Vietnamese technicians with Prince Souvanna Phouma's neutralist forces will depart from the Plaine des Jarres. Red Prince Souphanouvong named Nhommarat in south-central Laos as exit point for his Communist allies-which made little sense, since the majority of his estimated 10.000 Vietnamese troops are concentrated in the dense northern jungles, far from Nhommarat...
...reworded, the S.A.O. order now allows families-but not heads of families-to depart freely...
...junior members are willing to stake their academic future on their University, or whether they go elsewhere for jobs. As the Faculty's attitudes spread to the academic community outside the university, it becomes correspondingly easier or harder to recruit scholars to posts within the university. When junior Faculty depart for other scenes, and when it becomes more difficult to fill senior positions, a university is in trouble...
Purcell has sketched Dido and Aeneas as very real people. Aeneas almost parodies the traditional hero: when Fate tells him to depart he immediately says "of course" but when he thinks about it he curses the Spirit rather pompously. Alvarez Bulos paraded in just that manner, and swelled the roundness of his tone to catch Aeneas's rather stolid uprightness. In fact, his effort went too far: his tone became coarse and lacked contrast in its registers...
...stature and gave his voice a harshness which was supposedly villainous but instead was merely ugly. Neither he nor the Spirit, Michael McDonald, knew how to pronounce properly either for diction or sonority: McDonald was so ineffective that Aeneas seemed the more powerful when the Spirit told him to depart. And the witches could not sing. The chorus blended well and enlivened the evening with their vigor. But they were plagued with faulty pitch, particularly in the woman, and fell apart when reduced to individual voices...