Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody complained when Opera Diva Helen Traubel sang at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. But James Brown, the king of soul, at the shrine of country music? Well, that is noncountry royalty of a different kind, on account of all the king's funky songs. Insisted Pianist Del Wood, one of a pride of Opry regulars protesting
...tour was not all work, no play, however. "We took half a day off on the Oregon Beach, and we saw Disneyland," Gorjance said. The group also stopped in at Yellowstone ("It snowed on us, can you believe it?"), and the Grand Canyon ("It really made the tour.") Midway through the tour, the Glee Club spent about a week in Southern California, where it performed in the open-air Hollywood Bowl under Mstislav Rostropovich and the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
Overhanging all the ferment is the shadow of the Soviet Union, which has done little to promote the troubles but tries to capitalize on any chance to lessen U.S. influence. Said Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes: "I don't believe the Soviet Union has any grand design in this arc of instability, any master plan, any timetable. All those things belong to the imagination of some editorial writers and intelligence analysts." But Simes thinks that the Soviets are so eager to damage the U.S. that they will even act against some of their own national interests...
...both for outsiders and for the Chinese is whether the world's most populous nation can really modernize .its poor and backward agrarian economy in a mere 20 years. That is China's ambitious goal, but economic realities have already forced Peking to reconsider some of its grand plans...
...then acting associate dean of the Faculty. May concluded: "Since tutorial represents one-third to one-half of the departmental course work required of honors students and since most of the tutorial courses are managed exclusively by teaching fellows, we appear to be violating our principle on a grand scale...