Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buildings can build new hope. They can be representative of a "fresh new start." With people like Mr. Owings, knowing they hold this precious key with all the social responsibilities that go with it, the year 2000 may indeed be universally welcomed...
...vocabulary has passed into the everyday musical language. As such, they sometimes sounded like a lexicon of contemporary clichés: jagged leaps of melody, pointillistic instrumental textures, dryly intellectual twelve-tone patterns. At other times they underlined qualities in Webern's music that have remained fresh and inimitable to this day: delicacy, astringent lyricism, nearly inhuman purity of craftsmanship...
Best of the bunch is Pete Rose, 26, a brassy, bristle-topped Irishman, whose flip tongue and frenetic brand of baseball have injected fresh breath into an increasingly stale game. His zest once branded him a showoff. "In the minors, they called me 'Hot Dog' and 'Hollywood,' " he snorts, "but they don't holler at me in the majors." They certainly don't. Spraying hits from either side of the plate, Rightfielder Rose has batted better than .300 in each of the past three seasons. This year, with a .327 average, he is fighting...
...Moon, Townshend and Entwistle to erupt, between lines, into inspired instrumental dashes. Towards the end of the song Townshend took over and played lovely near-classic blues spiced as it was with the ever-present Who twist. It is at moments like these, watching a great guitarist making fresh and fruitful inroads into traditional numbers that one resents people like Buddy Guy who, at Newport, played very abstract music, making one feel faintly...
...peace talks scheduled for Addis Ababa this week, Nigerian federal forces launched a fresh drive against secessionist Biafra. From north and south, the federals were last week pushing toward the center of the breakaway state, determined either to finish off Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu's regime or at least improve their bargaining position for the talks...