Word: ests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abashed last night to arrive at the Agassiz only to discover that Johann Strauss Die Fledermans (in English) is actually subtitled "The Bat's Revenge." Now what in the world do I know about bats? (To be honest, I was able to recall a snatch of lvric from Il est Side Story that sang about bats out of hell, but I hardly thought that would see me through.) However, halfway through the second act, it became somewhat clear that the Eledermans libretto isn't about bats at all. No, it is all about unfaithful husbands, masked balls, hermaphrodite princes...
...things can go no farther than Z: the alphabet and the ideological film. Traditionally, political movies tend to be newsreels with strident sound tracks or windy polemics pretending to be conversation. Scenarist Jorge Semprun (La Guerre Est Finie) knows better. So does Director Costa-Gavras (Sleeping Car Murder), who correctly calls Z an "adventure film" against a system...
...JOSE, Cal., Dec. 3-Harvard's finest varsity soccer team ever, rated second in the nation, faces the country's number-one squad, St. Louis University, at 10 p.m. (EST) Thursday in the NCAA University Division Soccer Semifinal Round in San Jose...
...damage them. Their names, engraved in faint gold lettering on wooden plaques, crowd the walls of the Sanctum on the second floor of our House at 21 South Street. Pegasus, the winged horse, has been carved into a wooden throne chair, featured above The Advocate's motto: Dulce est Periculum. There is also another: Veritas nihil veretur, which means (I read a translation of it the introduction to this anthology) "Truth fears nothing...
...that it can exhaust the nerves and make mistakes inevitable. But the other extreme may be equally dangerous: for a President to insist on an air of effortless efficiency, to wrap himself in an illusion of serenity. It is a species of solipsism ("L'état c'est moi") for a President to imagine that the national realities always conform to his own mood of equanimity...