Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overlook some revolutionary developments in flute technique: 1) the range is now six-plus octaves: 2) there are four ways to produce sound besides the normal way-"air rush," "buzz," "hhh-ttt" and "pop"; 3) the mobility of the performer reveals new potentialities for "stereophonic glissando," antiphony between direct and reflected sound, etc. Such potentialities signify the emergence of a new musical humanism...
...queries the bureau handles often go beyond a single direct question. Researchers for this week's Essay on patience, for example, asked for and got the following: examples of patience and impatience in the American character; the part patience plays in war, salesmanship, education and moneymaking; examples of how patience is conducive to harmonious marriage; data on scientific feats that required great patience; what the Stoics had to say on patience; facts on well-known products that required years to develop; figures on the average length of time an executive stays with his company...
...Peace in Washington, who approved overwhelm ingly a resolution asking the President to consider 1) "an immediate halt" to the bombing in both North and South Viet Nam, 2) a new cease-fire beginning on Good Friday (April 8) and 3) an agreement to give the Viet Cong "direct representation" in any peace talks...
...before Marcel Pagnol agreed to sell the rights to his famous cinema trilogy-Marius, Fanny, Cesar. And then Merrick spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak and two months building the supporting cast and two months wrangling with the Shuberts about a theater and three months working up an advertising campaign and two months...
When the discussion turned to Administration policy, Ambassador Thai took a hard line that made Hubert Humphrey sound like an appeaser. Americans who support recognition of the Viet Cong in negotiations and "who have no direct living experience with Communism," Thai said "are causing a lot of headaches. I myself and every Vietnamese non-Communist who is seeking dignity a certain degree of freedom would never consider association with, the Viet Cong as a solution...