Word: hybrids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than $92 billion for fiscal 1963-and vowed that it would be in balance. But many economists and Congressmen had deep doubts. There have been only six budget surpluses since F.D.R.'s first inaugural-and 24 deficit years. The budget for fiscal 1962, an Eisenhower-Kennedy hybrid, so far shows a deficit of $6.9 billion. In "balancing" the first pure-Kennedy budget, the Administration counts heavily on a higher tax take from rising corporate and personal income, and on congressional approval of a controversial rise in postal rates (which could be gobbled up by postal wage rises...
Igor Stravinsky's attempt to describe his Persephone was not too illuminating: "A nose," he said, "is not manufactured; a nose just is. Thus, too, my art." In the case of Persephone, the nose is neither ballet nor oratorio nor melodrama. A curiously hybrid work, it was first performed by the dancer Ida Rubinstein in 1934 and calls for a tenor, a chorus and full orchestra, and a leading lady who declaims a French text by André Gide while she dances. Persephone's score ranks with Stravinsky's most tautly constructed music-in his best neoclassic...
...Saturn fired last week developed a thrust of 1,300,000 Ibs. Conceived in 1958 by Army Rocketeer Wernher von Braun. Saturn is a hybrid of eight 165,000-lb. engines clustered together like a bundle of cigars. As it stood on its Canaveral launching pad, the rocket towered 162 ft. high, weighed 462 tons...
...usual categories. For Example. Alcoa Premiére began last week on ABC with an impressive dramatized study of group psychotherapy in the U.S. Navy (starring Arthur Kennedy). NBC's Theater '61, offering live productions of TV plays adapted from once popular movies, may sound like hybrid corn, but the first one, Robert Goldman's TV version of The Spiral Staircase, reminded viewers how good live television drama...
...SONG OF HIAWATHA (Pipestone, Minn.), an even more expansive redskin opera, has a stage more than a quarter of a mile wide with lighting that can pinpoint one face in the darkness or illuminate an acre of land. The hybrid Longfellow narrative comes out of loudspeakers while the actors pantomime, but even without dialogue, the leading role is so strenuous that fresh Hiawathas are sent in like substitute halfbacks to spell the panting starter. Their hero slays the "wary roebuck," sears the wild West Wind, hunts down "monsters and magicians," wendigoes and kenabeeks. Skillfully J-stroking his canoe back...