Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opera cost its composer considerable grief: shortly after he wrote it he was denounced by the Soviets for bourgeois intentions and vulgar execution. It is a brash work; at times openly satirical, at others tragically serious. The plot, based on Nikolai Leskov's story, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, tells of a frustrated wife who eventually destroys the men around her. All the characters are thoroughly unsympathetic. The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing. As the wife, Niconora Andreyeva has spirited dramatic presence, but vocally she is insecure. Tenor Vyascheslav Radzievsky...
Wrong Course. The trouble began quietly enough, with a sit-in at the district office of the Boston Welfare Department by a group styling itself MAW -Mothers for Adequate Welfare. Complaining of hostility on the part of welfare workers and arbitrariness on the part of the department, about 30 MAWs locked themselves inside, announcing that they would not move until they had talked with Welfare Director Daniel Cronin. When police came to remove them, one woman screamed, a window was broken, and the crowd outside went on its mindless rampage...
...Michigan Democrats, last week's special election in the 75th legislative district was a second chance compounded. It was an opportunity to undo the damage of another special election (TIME, June 2), in which the Republicans scored an upset, gained a one-vote majority in the state house of representatives (thus improving the prospects of the G.O.P. tax program), and demonstrated yet again the pulling power of Governor George Romney...
...latest round, fought in a swing district just northeast of Detroit, the Democrats nominated Insurance Salesman Victor Steeh, 44, who had represented the area previously, and got every big Democratic name in the state to campaign for him. The stakes for the Republicans, and particularly Romney, were just as high. To support the relatively green G.O.P. candidate, Lawyer David Serotkin, 28, Romney again led a clutch of party personalities to the stump...
...Mississippi, evidence does not always equal conviction, especially in civil rights cases. Still, acquittal seemed unlikely last week for eight white men on trial in U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton's court in Oxford. The cause of it all was a wild white mob that undeniably tried to halt school integration in Grenada last fall by flailing Negro schoolchildren with fists, feet, clubs and chains. According to the U.S. prosecutor, the defendants, including a justice of the peace, were part of that mob -and he had 25 witnesses to prove...