Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROMEO AND JULIET. Franco Zeffirelli breathes new life into one of Shakespeare's most familiar plays. The violence is so visceral and the youthful lovers are so passionate that the story assumes a startling immediacy...
...anachronism, a throwback to the 19th century, when the individual performer counted most. Others say that it is too expensive to rehearse 100 or so musicians and hire a top-name soloist to perform a new concerto. Both arguments have some justification. Still, audiences love the familiar old concertos as much as ever. And so do pianists, as these releases make clear...
...Using familiar radical parlance, Hayden called the dominant white society a "sophisticated, neo-colonial system" and condemned its community control programs for their superficiality. "Manpower and community participation programs do not provide real involvement for the people living in the ghetto," he said, "hence they do not give ghetto people real control or decision-making powers...
Inside the rally room at the Somerset, all the familiar aspects of the New-Nixon machine went on display. Super-cool Nixon press aides quietly hustled local reporters out of the way in order to get the New York Times photographers and writers up near the front. "Papers with 10,000 to 25,000 circulation in the front row," said a steely-eyed young lady with a Press Aide badge. "You smaller papers in the back...
...challenge at FCC, though, is also to make education relevant to its students, to open up to them a world with which they are familiar but up to now have been unable to handle. Associate degrees will be awarded to students completing the first two years of study. Degrees will be given in urbanology, education, nursing and health, and community services. The two-year program, as it is envisoned now, will eventually be open to all graduates of D.C. high schools...