Word: ita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years has always kept political power in the hands of Malays but allowed the more commercially aggressive Chinese and Indians to accumulate much of the economic power. Outwardly, this combi nation brought twin blessings. Malaysia developed a thriving modern economy that produced one of the highest per cap ita incomes in Asia, and at the same time enjoyed the personal freedoms of a liberal democracy. Presiding over the hopeful experiment was the avuncular figure of 66-year-old Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. His Alliance coalition, dominated by Malays but including both Chinese and Indian parties, won control of Parliament...
...system has paid off. Since 1952, its gross national product has risen at an annual rate of 8.5%, while per cap ita income has climbed 4.4% a year...
Manon was another matter. Designer Ita Maximowna's sets are airy and unpretentious-a close match with Massenet's dulcet music and the story of his heroine's capricious pursuit of an early death. In Manon's virgin youth, the stage is warmed by springtime; in her Parisian tryst, the shabbiness of the curtains and walls is almost a state of mind; when she dies, her lover's desolation is framed in a lane of twisted tree stumps. Anna Moffo and Nicolai Gedda as Manon and the Chevalier Des Grieux seemed nervous with the French...
...fact is that Arosemena sober has done a surprisingly good job with Ecuador's backward economy. One-third of the country's 4.7 million people are Indians living under conditions little better than their Inca ancestors; the average per cap ita annual income for all Ecuadorians is just $167. From 1956 through 1961, the country's gross national product inched ahead at a painfully slow 1% a year. During the Arosemena administration, it jumped to 2.5%, still less than the annual population increase of 2.8%, but at least a move in the right direction. Banana ex ports...
Columbia's John Vaio, 21, delivered the first Class Day valedictory in Latin on Morningside Heights since circa 1900. Thundering like Cicero himself, Vaio declaimed that "ita mater nostra imperitiam iuventutis dispulit atque ignoratiam" (Columbia "has driven away the inexperience of youth"), and once he slipped orotundly into Greek, extolling Columbia's pressure àperńs els áxpov ixéσoa.i ("to reach the summit of excellence"). Slender, pale Classicist Vaio, who finds that world affairs, science and business "do not amuse" him, graduated with a higher average than anyone since 1952, won a summa...