Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site of its suffering, the floodlit Acropolis looked down upon a peaceful city preparing to retire for the night. Late diners strolled through the Plaka district of restaurants and tavernas, and traffic thinned to a trickle in the city's center. Then, only moments after midnight, moving so fast that it all seemed over in minutes, shadowy figures in battle dress began to appear everywhere. From barracks in Athens and all over Greece, troops slipped quietly out and took up battle stations in every key town, at every major intersection, at every railroad station, airport and radio transmitter. From...
...Germany a place in NATO and thus further links to the Western community of nations. Like John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State at the time, der Alte saw Communism as an implacable threat to his Christian conception of Western civilization. Dulles and Adenauer became fast friends. As with no other American diplomat, Adenauer felt that Dulles always told Bonn the truth. Dulles was, in fact, the statesman der Alte most admired be cause "he thought clearly, thought ahead, and he kept his promises...
...bargain spots of yesteryear are now hopelessly overcrowded. Out this season, says Fielding, are Torremolinos on Spain's Costa del Sol ("It has been overrun by the beats and the yé-yés; there are five different sexes there at least"), the French Riviera ("fading fast"), Italy's Adriatic coast below Venice ("absolutely overrun with Germans"), the islands of Ibiza and Majorca ("This stabs me in my left ventricle and in the right one too; we make our home there"), and Lucerne ("It's a madhouse; more than 30,000 people visit the city daily...
...rest of the sonata sounded equally refined; Street and Kalam negotiated the complex counterpoint and rhythms of the fast movements with complete confidence. Unfortunately, Street was consistently slightly overbalanced by the piano. His playing never became at all fiery, while Kalam's did on occasion. In every other respect, however, the performers' coordination was perfect--quite an achievement considering the dynamic and rhythmic liberties they took with the sonata...
More exciting, however, was Leon Kirchner's Sonata Concentrate. This sonata, composed in 1952, is long, elaborate, and tightly packed; its textures are brilliant and its technical demands high. After a slow and baffling opening it is consistently fast-moving. Street handled all the technical problems of the work with complete ease, and attained a more brilliant tone than before. What had been a solemn and quiet recital became at the end a passionate one as well...