Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National People's Congress carried with them the possibility that in some circumstances unforeseeable now the whole thing could come a cropper: a desperate people, overworked, underfed, a trivial incident of defiance, a single lapse of authority-such as an army unit's refusal to fire on a handful of insubordinate peasants in a commune-might set off a chain reaction. No one saw such prospects now. Yet better than anyone else, Red China's outwardly confident rulers know that great leaps involve the risk of disastrous falls...
...bullet from Amiel's revolver struck one of his pupils, Alain Rolland, 16, in the back of the head and killed him. Standing trial in Perpignan's sunlit Palais de Justice, Amiel was asked why he did not fire into the air. "It goes without saying," he answered, "that I regret not having fired in the air." Teacher Amiel refused to make excuses, would not plead overwork at the end of the term, nervous strain in trying to pay for his new house, harassment by the students. He said sternly: "A teacher can never have sufficient provocation...
...pledged not to embarrass his Indian hosts) he bluntly accused the Red Chinese of destroying a large number of monasteries, killing lamas and forcing monks and officials into labor camps. He had left Lhasa in fear of his own life, said the Dalai Lama, when the Communists opened fire on his Norbulingka palace with mortar shells...
...concert was not over at the curtain. A key to Director Polikoff s program is a postconcert forum in which the audience is invited to fire questions at the composers. In preceding concerts, audiences have pulled no punches: "What does it mean?" "Why doesn't it have any melody?" "Do you have to make it sound so complicated?" From the blunt questions, Polikoff hopes everybody learns something. Last week's haymaker: "With whom are you trying to communicate?" Replied fiercely complex Composer Sessions: "With anyone who will listen. All the composer asks is a willing...
...highways (better than Germany's), the superb discipline of orchestras accompanying his dancers, the "children's land of enchantment" in California's Disneyland. Moiseyev was not without a few gay barbs. He tweaked gaudy American advertisements for stiffening sales resistance; the incessant screaming of fire and police sirens in New York were annoying, and many U.S. movies simply a bore. For 3½ hours, Moiseyev enthralled 600 actors, dancers, musicians and writers. When he finished, he was asked to repeat the talk, this time before Moscow's House of Journalists...