Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city of sympathizers sprouted around the gas station, which became a sort of shrine. A Franciscan priest celebrated Mass there each evening until last week, when Chavez, more than 30 Ibs. lighter-he went without food for four days longer than Gandhi during his 1924 hunger strike-ended his fast...
Last Perch. Dubček's men warned the people against going too far too fast with liberalization. Perhaps mindful of the 20 Russian divisions poised across the border in East Germany, even the most outspoken reformers stopped short of suggesting any break with the Soviet Union. The press did, however, give surprisingly frank coverage of last week's riots in Poland, which were partly sparked by the events in Czechoslovakia...
From Broom to Pencil. Such modern techniques, combined with fast reaction to loan requests and an unusual willingness to take chances, have pushed Bradesco from nowhere 25 years ago into a commanding position as Brazil's biggest private bank-second in size to the federal government's bank. It now has deposits of $175 million, serves 1,200,000 customers and claims 174,000 shareholders, including all of its 8,064 employees...
Equally interesting, if not always as successful, is Babe's substitution of a loudspeaker for the proverbial Shakespearian messenger: when a panicstricken Rome first hears that Coriolanus may be allied with the Volscians, Babe stages a fast dialogue between Menenius, the tribunes, and the loud speaker, eerie in the momentary illusion that the loud speaker is quite conscious of what the other three are saying. The use of film and speaker projection proves Babe's most successful instinct in Coriolanus and the device most fully resolved; the harrowing ending is played simultaneously on stage and film; Babe requires a dual...
McClennen, a tempermental three-year letterman who hated to lose, looked over his shoulder and saw the Syracuse shell coming up fast. He hollered a warning, and in one stroke the Crimson accelerated...