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...country. "Our real ambition," explains Bing, "is that in a number of years this company will no longer be necessary. If, in due course, it can inspire local companies, if it is able to persuade the American public that one can have great opera without stars, then it can disband because it will have done...
After the 1966 elections, parties must disband if they have not 1) reorganized and established headquarters in at least eleven (of 22) states, 2) elected twelve federal deputies in at least seven states, and 3) won the votes of at least 3% of the electorate. In all likelihood, the result will be that only the five biggest parties in the country will survive. Such reforms, says a top member of the Electoral Court, "should give a new, more democratic spirit to our parties. They will no longer be run by a clique of six or seven." Given Brazilian politics, that...
...success abroad is not success at home. When the dancers return to the U.S., they must temporarily disband for lack of employment...
...season, part of the deal was to put on a play a week, which left hardly any time for rehearsal. A completely unsatisfactory engagement at the Fred Miller Theater in Milwaukee nearly finished them off. In fact, early in 1962, the principal members of the company had agreed to disband, only to regroup hours later when a chance to play in New York off Broadway opened up. They decided, said one, to "massage the heart," and though the engagement lost money, the troupe was offered a three-year contract for an annual 20-week stand (with proper rehearsal time...
...most part, the Klan's outrages were applauded by Southerners who felt that the K.K.K. was the last best hope for the South's lily-white cause. But in 1869, Nathan Forrest himself ordered the Klan to disband. As University of Florida Professor David Chalmers writes in his book, Hooded Americanism, "A secret masked society, composed of autonomous units, dedicated to the use of force, operating in unsettled times, proved impossible to control. The better citizens were dropping out and the quality of membership in many of the states was declining...