Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mahler's Das Lied: love, death, nature. But there are no romantic mists to invite reverie in Dickinson's crystalline verses, and Copland's music shades from an impressionistic to a literal approach. Macabre chords open the song I Felt a Funeral in My Brain; a fast-rising whir of melody introduces the line "There came a Wind like a Bugle." Sung by Soprano Adele Addison with the composer at the piano...
...five years to streamline the Army Reserve and National Guard, their usefulness in an emergency would still be seriously impaired by the many units that remain undermanned and underequipped. Last week the Pentagon announced a third reorganization plan for both groups, aimed at cutting fat and building reflex-fast muscle...
...change was gradual until three to four years ago. Since then, sex education in the schools has moved forward at startling speed. Experts estimate that two years from now, 70% of the nation's schools will have broad, thorough sex-education programs. Progress has been so fast that it is creating problems: a shortage of qualified teachers and great uncertainty about what form instruction should take...
...this reason, many hawks in Israel would give in to the temptation to strike first and fast at the Arabs, knocking them off balance and freeing the Gulf of Aqaba by marching down the Sinai Peninsula to the sea. It is a natural temptation?but it is a measure of Israel's new maturity that it has so far been resisted. Risking national unpopularity and dissension even within his ruling Mapai party, Premier Eshkol, 71, has withheld Israel's sword, counting on diplomacy and the good will of such friends as the U.S. and Britain to work out the problem...
...short revival. Politically, Hollywood soon succumbed to the rise of McCarthy, and culturally to that of television, both of which forced the motion picture industry to compete almost exclusively for an audience it had previously sought to resist. The results of this competition were fast and unmistakable: genres rose overnight to replace the social problems that were now taboo. Foreign settings, both in time and place, took over when it became impossible to face the present forcefully. Hacks were rampant...