Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading a revolt against the government, and the now-dominant army leaders huffily withdrew their ambassador to Peking for "consultation." Peking has fallen into disrepute in most of Africa, where it has failed to produce on its big promises of aid. Even hard-lining, Peking-backing Albania (which Chou En-lai called "the flower garden of socialism") is showing symptoms of a turn politically and economically away from China and toward its Eastern European neighbors...
Rubinstein's feats of memory are legendary. In 1903 he caused a sensation in Warsaw by performing Paderewski's Sonata in E Flat Minor the day after it was published; he learned Cesar Franck's complex Symphonic Variations on the train en route to a concert hall in Madrid. He can commit a sonata to memory in one hour, and he can play as many as 250 lieder. His friends used to play a kind of "Stump Artur" game in which they would call out titles?excerpts from symphonies, operas, Cole Porter scores?to see if he could play them...
...Feminine Mystique was published four years ago, but Mrs. Fried en discusses "new life patterns for women" and disparages "sex-directed education" with as much fervor as ever. She claims there has been a "change inconsciousness among women since I wrote that book. Young women, college girls especially, are defining themselves in terms other than their sexual relationships with...
Most, that is, except Attorney George Weinstein, 33. Convinced that the "law is clear and should be en forced," Weinstein went into New York Supreme Court as a "taxpayer and voter" to ask for an injunction barring the Transit Authority from giving the transit workers their illegal raise...
...embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...