Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After he was elected mayor of New York City as a fusion candidate of the Republican and Liberal parties in 1965, John Vliet Lindsay pledged a nonpartisan administration. Republican Nelson Rockefeller could have used some cam paign support from the mayor in last year's gubernatorial race, but Lindsay blandly observed that his office was above politics and for the most part kept his silence...
...fallout of China's third and fifth A-bomb explosions-clues that it was developing nuclear triggers to set off hydrogen warheads. U.S. experts guessed that last week's bomb, which was detonated in the air over the Sinkiang desert, was probably a standard fission-fusion-fission device in the "several megaton" range...
Shadow Plays. In his struggle to maintain that fusion, he very nearly realized the wish that he once expressed as a little boy-to grow up to be "a martyr." He was accepted at the Vienna Conservatory at 15, later supported himself by conducting, and at 37 became director of the Vienna Opera. He swept out has-been singers and dusty traditions, and turned out the polished, provocative productions that made him one of Europe's major musical forces. He was also a fanatical-looking figure-5 ft. 6 in. tall, thin, gazing fiercely from behind rimless spectacles...
...Philharmonic (London), gives a turbulent interpretation that shows his affinity for Mahler. But Tenor James King sounds a bit forced, and the second soloist is a baritone instead of the usual, complementary mezzo-soprano. However, that baritone is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and his 30-minute Farewell is a perfect fusion of poetry and song...
...films of Jean Renoir, a protagonist moves through episodic scenes, his actions steadily becoming a means of intense personal expression. In climactic scenes, characters realize the nature of their commitment to life and are able to voice it: a joyous fusion of purpose and articulation. At the end of This Land Is Mine (1943), the schoolmaster (Charles Laughton) overcomes his cowardice, refuses to collaborate with the Nazis that have occupied his country, and expresses his conviction in a long speech to the townspeople. As he speaks, the light from the window gives him a presence he had lacked before...