Word: gabriele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dozen of the new postwar nations are now ruled by their military establishments. More and more, the military-officer corps plays the role of constitutional monarchy with emergency power. In the past nine months, seven African nations have been taken over by the military. "It is these men," says Gabriel Almond, president of the American Political Science Association, "who are initially most appalled at the signs of corruption and breakdown." New-nation armies by and large are not only the most honest, disciplined and organized elite in their countries but, paradoxically, the most democratic force around...
...oratorio will seem especially vivid to U.S. listeners because the music so closely fits the words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum and Bass Chester Watson...
...movement of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Debussy's First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, a recitative and aria from Beethoven's Fidelio, and a surprise modern piece-Andre Previn's Overture to a Comedy-for which they were given only 30 minutes to prepare. Said Concertmaster Gabriel Banat: "It was a harrowing experience for them and a merry-go-round...
...creation of the force, the U.S. will create serious dissension. Four Latin American nations--Chile, Mexico, Columbia and Uruguay--have soundly denounced the proposal. Five others -- Peru, Venczucla, Argentina, Ecuador and Costa Rica are -- known to be opposed. "This idea of collective action in the internal affairs of states," Gabriel Valdez of Chile told the ministers, "reflects a negative defensive attitude capable of destroying historically the great effort of organizing a new world in the Americas...
...endorsed candidates are Katherine Craven, George F. Foley, John J. Concannon, Gabriel Piemonte, and Perlie Dyar Chase...