Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your informative and penetrating cover story on the chaos inside Red China [Jan. 13] reveals one clear fact: Red China is a dragon in trouble, if not a dragon in sleep. Communist rule, after 17 years of "leap forward" and "construction," has never been stable. Even the Great Wall could not prevent the outside world from knowing that the developing power struggle might mean the end of the regime...
...most ambitious of all gubernatorial pipedreams was put forward by Walter Hickel, Alaska's first Republican Governor (its second Governor since statehood), who envisioned a new railroad that would stretch 500 miles across the state's high plateau from Fairbanks to Nome. The line would connect with the 470-mile line, known affectionately as the "Moose Gooser," currently running from Seward to Fairbanks. And, said Hickel, it would open Alaska to development just as the transcontinental railroad opened the West in 1869. Who knows? If the détente with Russia flourishes, the line-if it is built...
...ironically viewed mating rites. There are scenes of uproarious comedy, as when one lovable idiot of a soldier weighs the righteousness of fidelity to his wife against the pleasure of a dimly conceived seduction. Intermingled with such scenes are others quite heartbreaking, portraits of wallflowers with little to look forward to from life...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 835, maybe there will be again."). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my room...
...singers and the bel canto tradition is the microphone, which allows vocalists to sing more naturally, without straining to make them selves heard above a thundering opera house orchestra. To stay vital, says Pleasants, opera singers must look backward to bel canto because they have nothing to look forward to. He contends that the torturously difficult vocal writing of modern composers is so contrary to the melodic essence of song that it is beyond salvation. The futility, he says, is reflected in Basso Cesare Siepi's lament that "I have nothing against modern composers. But what have they...