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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a limit to the amount of money an individual can obtain from renting housing, but it is fairly high. The fact that the government allows this is evidence of its willingness to accommodate as many groups as possible--at least, in the short run. However, large property owners and shopkeepers were eliminated; one night they nationalized something like 550 bars in Havana alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sam Bowles Takes a Look at Cuba | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

...fact, the government has undertaken such an ambitious investment and development program that, given their failure to achieve marked increases in labor productivity, a labor shortage has actually been created. To help relieve it, during the harvest season people who normally work at, say, office jobs or in factories, go out to the fields in the voluntary labor program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sam Bowles Takes a Look at Cuba | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

There are still some inequalities between the country and the city; for example, fewer rural children go on to secondary school. The striking fact, though, is not that inequalities still exist, but the degree to which they have been reduced. It should not be surprising to a social scientist that Cuba has not been able to eliminate all its inequalities in a mere ten years. What About The Second Objective, Changing The Relation Of Men To The Means Of Production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sam Bowles Takes a Look at Cuba | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

Madame Carmirelli attacked the first movement of the sonata at break-neck speed, despite the fact tat in Bach's time, both tempo and dynamics were much less varied than they have been since. Then, the slow movements and thew allegros more closely resembed each other in speed. In dynamics, Bach conceived of his works as built of solid, steady blocks of sound. Madame Carmirelli constantly shifted from pianist to forte and from slow to fast. It is true Bach wrote the sonatas as little "soul-states" as Schweitzer says, but he writes with polyphone rather than her extremes...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, LAST MONDAY AT SANDERS THEATRE | Title: The Concertgoer | 7/29/1969 | See Source »

...Brubaker has already paid for everything--with huge chunks of his soul and his precious time. So when Catherine (her name is Gunther instead of Deneuve, she is Brubaker's boss's wife--a fact which eludes him through most of the film, and her life is similarly desolate and sterile) comes to his attention at Gunther's party (yes, this film begins with one too) and he says, "Name's Brubaker. Buy you a drink?" It's a masterstroke of justice that she replies, "I'll get my things...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: The April Fools | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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