Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speakers agreed that Chinese intervention in South Vietnam is unlikely. Frank Armbruster, director of Guerrilla Warfare Studies at the Hudson Institute, said Saturday that the Vietnamese terrain is unsuited to the Chinese human-wave attacks. He pointed to the shortage of armor in the Chinese army and Chinese unfamiliarity with Vietnamese terrain...
Council vice-president Frank D. Raines '71 organized the poll, which includes some 65 questions in the four areas...
Philadelphia has what amounts to a Balanchine road company in the Pennsylvania Ballet, founded by three of his former students. Rapidly shaping a style all their own, the Pennsylvanians scored a critical hit recently with the world premiere of John Butler's Ceremony, a frank, sexy study of fear and alienation. Even more ambitious is the Harkness Ballet, which now has ten former Jeffrey dancers to count on, at least two soloists (long-haired Lawrence Rhodes and sultry Brunilda Ruiz) of star magnitude, and the staggering total of 20 newly commissioned dances in its repertory. Still another inventive company...
Since its founding, the Harkness Ballet alone has commissioned more music scores than any U.S. orchestra except the New York Philharmonic. One sign of dance's expanding horizon is the interest of artists in exploring its possibilities. Painters Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Frank Stella have collaborated with Merce Cunningham; Underground Film Maker Ed Emshwiller is filming dancers in what may be a dance-dominated "total cinema...
...Died. Frank Erickson, 72, "King of the Bookies," who for some 30 years operated a $12 million-a-year gambling business behind the front of a Manhattan florist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. To New York's Fiorello La Guardia he was a "tinhorn punk"; but to thousands of horseplayers Erickson was the giant of U.S. gambling, handling some $33,000 a day in bets until he was convicted of illegal gambling in 1950 and tax evasion...