Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Santa Fe is not a touring company, they will make a record of their hit production. The BBC and WNET filmed a performance for airing this fall. The first-night audience, filing out of the opera house after the performance, was treated to an impromptu epilogue. A young woman in the crowd sprang up on the fountain and before long her voice was resonating across the plaza proclaiming modern woman's plight. Her speech lacked both the wit and charm of Gertrude S. and Virgil T. But it was a spunky gesture, very much in keeping with...
National anthems and flags at award ceremonies should be eliminated. The impromptu celebrations and flag waving by fans immediately after an athlete's victory always were more meaningful and emotional than the ceremonies hours later. At Montreal, the ceremonies seemed anti-climactic and were often regarded as an annoyance since other competitions had to be halted. Their only advantage seemed to be the opportunity they afforded for standing and stretching one's legs...
...year of maneuvering, Washington has not yet confronted the kind of test that he now faces in New York. But Washington's dealings with a dilatory and troublesome Congress, his choice of subordinates and his efforts to turn an impromptu band of ragged Yankee individualists into a modern 18th century army have shown him to be an impressive leader. His personality matches boldness to patience, an iron will to supple diplomacy, high vision to concern for lowly detail...
...little tune about the melancholy restrictions of heaven. It seems that in paradise, Grandma and Grandpa are not permit ted to work, and they are chafing under such unseemly leisure. The kids are sympathetic, but continue their search for the Blue Bird. Grandma and Grandpa then lapse into an impromptu imitation of all prospective audiences for this film by going on the nod again...
...reason is that India, with a bumper crop of 114 million tons of grain last year, wants to stockpile 15 million tons against possible bad times ahead. The size of the crop far outruns the country's storage capacity; much of the grain has been piled up in impromptu warehouses, like unused college buildings, where the rats are having a field day. Hence the need for more snakes. Curiously, both animals are considered sacred-and thus inviolable in some regions. Even though India has conducted antirat campaigns from at least 1881 onward, lingering reverence may be one reason...