Word: midday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once characterized performances of chamber music and was one of its greatest strengths. But the rapport was broken when chamber music moved into large concert halls, for which it was never intended. Four seasons ago, deciding that "Italy has gone through great decadence in chamber music," Menotti launched the midday series at Spoleto as a long-shot restorative. Each summer since, about 50 similarly dedicated instrumentalists and singers from abroad have turned up for the series on nothing more than Menotti's promise of bed and board. They have performed everything from 13th century motets to Korean twelve-tone...
...front of a pale green building on Honolulu's Kapiolani Boulevard one day last week, a band of ukuleles and a bass fiddle plunked out a rhythmic island tune. In the midday sun, languid, aloha-shirted islanders meandered back and forth along the sidewalk carrying their signs, pausing now and then for a swig of pineapple juice or to chat with a passerby. The occasion was neither a luau nor a festival, but the visible evidence of the first strike in more than 100 years of Hawaiian newspaper publishing history...
...began at midday near the Ambassador Hotel just off ancient Wenceslas Square. Two foreign students-one from Africa and another from the Middle East -were out for a stroll when they were attacked by a gang of 300 Czechs who pummeled them with fists and bunches of keys while police stood idly by. That evening another group of young Czechs began swinging at an African walking with his Czech wife, then picked a fight with two more Africans who had been arguing with some Cubans. This time police broke up the brawls, but not before a fourth incident occurred...
...much as they can out of the short day, the long drive and the considerable expense. But spring geländesprungers tend to take it easy, swinging onto the tows as the sun crosses the yardarm, basking in the long sun after lunch. Their siestas are prolonged because the midday snow is apt to be mushy, because spring snow is harder to ski, and because fewer skiers and longer hours mean more skiing and more fatigue. At Mammoth Mountain, this may lead to an added pleasure. Skiers tuck wine bottles under their arms, trek ten miles down the valley...
...apartment buildings. "They are sealed in their apartments," says Dr. Paul Noren, the Augustana Lutheran pastor who is president of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "but they are a responsibility of the church." To reach these hidden Christians, many Denver churches play down Sunday worship in favor of midday services during the week...