Word: levying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fedayeen nonetheless succeeded in their purpose of inciting the Israelis and further lessening hopes of peace in the area. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol declared that "the full responsibility for this horrendous incident falls on the head of the Arab states." In the Middle East's familiar dialectic of attack and reprisal, that verdict seemed to leave in doubt only the time and place of Israel's retaliation...
...Levi's. "Girls need to design something that nobody else has, and now they can," says Michael Mott, 27, successor to Betsey Johnson as chief designer for Paraphernalia. Mott is all for the hippies, hence his American Indian costume. But like many other young people, he is also tuned in to other cultures, as witness his fur-trimmed midiskirts, borrowed from Persia. The same is true for Deanna Littell, 29, who finds ethnic inspiration in the costumes of Polish peasants and Russian Cossacks; Gayle Kirkpatrick, 34, who adapts the dress of Persian houris; Edie Gladstone, 39, who fancies...
...himself as a Renaissance man, and not without some reason. He studied architecture in Florence, industrial design in Barcelona, ceramies in Paris. He also studied with Picasso, drew cartoons for Walt Disney, designed hotel interiors in the Caribbean. Now he has produced his first collection of clothes, including Levi-inspired pants suits in broadtail and patchwork explosions of pure color, designed so that individual pieces can be combined in any number of ways. "The hippies made people unafraid of going their own way," says Sant'Angelo, "and now that they have tasted this new freedom they will never conform...
...ordinary economic rules, Israel ought to be in receivership. After more than a decade of living beyond its means, the country skidded into a deep recession in 1965 when Premier Levi Eshkol's anti-inflationary slowdown proved too abrupt. Unemployment jumped to 10%, and the government for the first time in its history was forced to put the jobless on the dole...
Basically, it is music for the man who likes the plays of Samuel Beckett, the paintings of Marcel Duchamp and the films of Antonioni. It begins in a mood of tension: excerpts from Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Brazilian mythology are read against a highly dissonant background. In the haunting second part, the name Martin Luther King is recited and sung over and over again, the syllables spilled out here, squeezed there, so that the name is uttered in an endless variety of permutations. In the impassioned third section, the vocalists speak and sing excerpts from Beckett...