Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decorum," is a a spoof on the Peace Corps, and it is mostly institution. If you go to see it, you should see it as an event, not as a musical. With a date and a drink (which I badly needed), the evening would be much like watching Harvard lose a football game...
Princeton will lose Al Kaemmerlen and Pete Campbell, its two top scorers, but will gain the best of a terrifying freshman team. Among the Tiger freshmen is an Ivy League-type Jerry Lucas named Bill Bradley who does everything, as the sportswriters say, but sell the tickets...
...import of precisely what it wants to say. This import strikes us at the moment that we become so imbued with Wagner's musical world that each single utterance--motif, cadence or action--conveys the full magnitude of the drama. In the end singers and orchestra should lose their novelty for us and become vehicles for the expression of Wagner's overarching musical revelation. Music can only touch our lives, he would claim, when it is aware of its mundanity. Die Meistersinger pleads for this aesthetic outlook, and the Opera Group performance achieved what this outlook intended...
...Moslems had nothing to lose in seeking a way across the ford by following Benkhedda and other F.L.N. leaders. The leaders were drawn mostly from the privileged Moslem families and felt themselves equal as men to the French, but forced into social and economic inferiority. French rule, and later the war itself, provided the unity that the Moslems had lacked so long...
Typically, De Gaulle will not endorse any single party in the next elections, will instead make a grand and ambiguous appeal for the election of those who support Gaullist policy and French glory. Despite De Gaulle's popularity, the Gaullist U.N.R. stands to lose many of its 207 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The Algérie Française wing of the party will defect, and 26 U.N.R. Deputies from Algerian constituencies will disappear with independence. The Communists may gain seats by arguing that they had been for an Algerian settlement before anyone else...