Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago over a triviality: a 9? increase in the price of meals in a student cafeteria at the National University of the Northeast in Corrientes. Students were already angered by a campus peace often enforced by policemen in the classrooms. Now, they took to the streets. The police met them with gunfire, killing a 21-year-old medical student. The riots soon spread to half a dozen other cities. Last week, demonstrators protesting two more student deaths took over a 50-block area in Rosario, Argentina's second largest city, and held it for several hours, until they...
...Chinese and irritating to many other people in the world." With or without U.S. lobbying, the vote will probably go against Peking for some time. Even if it turns favorable, there are no indications that Peking will accept a seat until its terms for entering the U.N. are met; Peking insists that it be absolved of the Korean War aggressor label and that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists be expelled. Neither is likely to happen soon...
Sociological v. Practical. At each stop, we were met by guides from local black organizations and escorted through schools, economic projects and job training centers, as well as into homes and bars at night for "rap" sessions that lasted well into the morning. In Chicago, we listened to Jesse Jackson, heir-apparent to leadership in Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In Cleveland's Hough ghetto, the group stayed with families in ghetto apartments. In San Francisco, a motel manager emptied enough rooms of prostitutes to crowd the group in-and got himself beaten...
Lady Barbara Ward Jackson, LL.D., economist. She has taught her admirers and students that realities are not as dangerous as fancies and that true independence and genuine accomplishment stem from hard facts bravely met...
Though the Staatsoper has regained much of its prewar luster, it is no longer the unquestioned queen of the world's opera houses. Acoustically, the theater itself is a marvel. Yet even Vienna's chauvinistic critics will concede that artistic standards at New York's Met and Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphig...