Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...folk music in foreign languages can be appreciated by the monolingual. MONITOR releases a great many recordings from the Slavic nations, most of which sound like the State Radio Orchestra and Chorus of Byelorussia backed up by the entire population of Byelorussia. The songs are uniformly translated to fit into the following matrix: "My love is in the tavern drinking (national beverage)/The flocks are on the hillside eating (national fodder)/Come away with me, my love for your eyes are like (national cliche)/Come and we will (international cliche...
Unfortunately, the Nativity will run for only another two nights; and, as unfortunately, Christ Church has seen fit to set an unreasonably high price on its tickets. Mr. Thompson's pageant will undoubtedly be repeated for many years by many groups, but it should if possible be seen now if only because the composer himself is conducting the performances...
This year's number three man is Dave Watts, another veteran of the Chicago trip. Watts has been handicapped by an injured thumb, sprained in House football, but by next week he should be fit. "Muggy" Mugaseth and Dave Symmes round out the first five players. Both are lettermen from last year...
Smith continued, "Now I wouldn't just stand here with a straight face and tell you the CRIMSON is a rewarding experience if I didn't believe it myself, now, would I?" At this point he became consumed in a fit of giggles and the rest his talk was incomprehensible...
...dazzled by the enormous parades sweeping into Peking's Tien An Men square with a swirling of scarlet flags, the cheerful explosion of strings of firecrackers whirled on poles, the rhythmic thunder of drums and cymbals. Healthy, pig-tailed girls dance by in a flutter of pastel scarves; fit-looking soldiers march past in cadenced columns; phalanxes of workers with banners roar out slogans extolling the greatness of Communism and hatred of "American imperialism." Here, evidently, is all the panoplied might of a confident and messianic power...