Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead-off conductor at Salzburg, where he has appeared for three straight years. With feet planted firmly apart, lithe, suavely handsome Mehta led the Berlin Philharmonic with driving energy through a varied program of works by Stravinsky, Mozart and Brahms, writhing and swaying, from heels to tiptoes, with the ebb and flow of the rhythms. Disdaining a score, he commanded a clean, precise beat with slashing strokes of his baton, winding his arm behind his head for broad, sweeping gestures like a pitcher unfurling a fastball, while his spidery left hand deftly drew out the secondary voices...
...racy testimony ran verbatim-that Daily Mirror Tycoon Cecil King was moved to envy: "The Times gets away with legal pornography." But the Times also found a moral lesson that the rest of Fleet Street missed: "Eleven years of Conservative rule have brought the nation spiritually to a low ebb...
...There is," he said, "an ebb and flow in human affairs which at rare moments brings the complex of human events into a delicate balance. At those moments, the acts of government may indeed influence, for better or for worse, the course of history. This is such a moment in the life of the nation. This is the moment for the Senate." So saying, Mansfield moved that his colleagues "proceed to the consideration" of H.R. 7152, a 55-page bill that embodies the most meaningful civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. At last the Sen ate's civil rights debate...
AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong and the wrongs he did them. The play's closeness to Miller's life belongs more properly to exhibitionism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur...
AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong, and the wrongs he did them. The play's close ness to Miller's life belongs more properly to voyeurism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur...