Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibly the last big try for power by Colombia's aging (66) ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. On the eve of last week's presidential elections, Rojas drafted a puppet candidate, scheduled a whirlwind campaign of the countryside, and gave his man the same big buildup that had helped Rojas' party win 18% of the vote in the congressional elections last March. In the end, it wasn't enough. For the third time, the country's eight-year-old National Front coalition won the presidency. The winner by a better than two-to-one margin...
...Modern-Style. He got there, in the past four months, singing unmelodious songs in a plain, unemotional, unmusical voice. His repertory is the same protest, parent-baiting message music that is now becoming passé in the States. One of his hits, La Guerre, sounds like a medley of Eve of Destruction and Blowin' in the Wind...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! On the eve of a departure, memories wrestle with longings, the familiar competes with the unknown. Irish Playwright Brian Friel gives a compassionate rendering of the conflict in one young man as he prepares to leave Ireland for the new world...
...Agnelli took over the company's chairmanship on the eve of a major new venture. Russia is expected to sign in a few days a "precontract" for the construction of a $600 million auto plant in Russia. Half of the plant will be purchased from Fiat. If the contract goes through, the plant will be opened in 1970 and will eventually turn out 500,000 modified Fiat 124s annually...
FAURÉ: LA CHANSON D'ÈVE, AND FAURÉ'DEBUSSY: SIX VERLAINE POEMS SUNG BY PHYLLIS CURTIN (Cambridge). In the Song of Eve, Charles van Lerberghe's poetry runs with Eve through paradise on the world's first morning-fresh, vibrant, exulting. Fauré's setting is considerably tamer, though it echoes the poet's purity, as does Soprano Curtin. The flip side of this unusual record consists of settings by Fauré and Debussy of the same six Verlaine lyrics. It is a tribute to the richness of French songs that both...