Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thick walls of old custom." Gunpowder or not, the Western influence, matched by Japan's own singular drive and energy, is giving the country the highest living standard in the Far East. And the living standard in Tokyo is higher than anywhere else in the four main rich and fertile islands of Japan. This, in part, is responsible for Tokyo's spectacular population increase, which now averages about 250,000 annually-from 70,000 to 80,000 through Tokyo births alone, and a colossal 180,000 annually through immigration from the countryside. As a symbol of power...
...formidable task: close to 100 buildings, including office and apartment buildings, 25 schools and 41 theaters, were closed as unsafe. The luxurious apartment building, Casa Latinoamerica, was likely to be condemned. The landmark office building at No. 1 Reforma was abandoned and will be torn down. The new main wing of the Continental Hilton cracked away from its annex, will be closed five months for repairs. Even buildings with unscarred fronts turned out to be wrecks inside...
...financed DEW line cost $500 million and more than a score of lives, mostly fliers who crashed in the gigantic airlift of men and materials to the several dozen radar sites. Last week the main builder, Western Electric Co., turned the line over to International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., which will operate it. Manning the remote outposts are 1,000 technicians, nearly 80% of them Canadians. The DEW-liners are confident that no invading aircraft can pass them undetected. In preliminary trials, even birds set the alarm bells ringing...
Question: "What play of Shakespeare deals with jealousy aroused by a traitor out of pure hatred?" Answer: "Othello, of course." True; but Shakespeare had also treated this subject previously, for it is the main theme of Much Ado About Nothing. And he would return to it again, with self-interest substituted for pure hatred, in Cymbeline. The material for all three variations on the theme came from earlier sources...
...quick succession Shakespeare turned out three romantic comedies around 1600: Much Ado, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The last is by far the best; but the second best of Shakespeare--as of Brutus--is impressive. Still, the serious main story of Hero and Claudio in Much Ado is pallid stuff, and is based more on accident and coincidence than a Hardy novel. Shakespeare obviously took this tale just as a frame to hang some original fun on. What impresses us (as it did Berlioz in fashioning his last opera) is the sparkling and witty comedy of Beatrice...