Word: minuet
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...Minuet. The frustration over Viet Nam ought to help such antiwar candidates as Democrat George McGovern and Republican Pete McCloskey. But McGovern backers have had difficulty getting local students to work hard for their man. "I think these kids are into not being radical now," explains Frances Bennotti, a McGovern worker manning a campus campaign table in Durham. Nor does the issue necessarily hurt Nixon. Dick Allison, a tram conductor at the Cannon Mountain ski area, lost a cousin in Viet Nam. He considers the war a tragic mistake, but defends the Administration's pace of withdrawal...
Neither the Big Red nor Big Green had an easy time preserving its unblemished ord. Cornell edged Columbia in Ithaca last Saturday, 24-21, on John Killen's 37 yd. field goal with five minutes to play in the game. Dartmouth called upon Ted Perry with less than a minuet to go to rally and beat Yale...
Diplomatic Minuet. Of even greater long-term significance is the impact of Sino-American relations on the Soviet Union. Washington acted to put the Peking trip into global perspective, emphasizing that the U.S. had not lost sight of the importance of its relations with the U.S.S.R. in preventing nuclear war. Yet a diplomatic minuet was required to get the point across. Moscow, apparently determined to express no alarm over the 'Washington-Peking rapprochement, did not seek a U.S. explanation-and Rogers was reluctant to summon the Soviet ambassador. But Anatoly Dobrynin's visit to the State Department...
...periods of prosperity, the relationship between creditor and debtor in the U.S. is generally as polite and stylized as a minuet. Now the minuet has become a danse macabre. Many consumers, trying to husband their dollars in a time of diminishing incomes, rising unemployment and ridiculous prices, are letting their unpaid bills pile up. Businessmen, strapped for cash themselves, are prodding tardy customers faster and harder than ever, while artfully dodging their own debts. Unable to collect their bills, many companies are paring down their operations, and some are simply dropping out of business...
...little' G minor Symphony is one of Mozart's most intriguing pieces. It is much more forceful than most of the earlier Mozart, written in 1783. I find the minuet in the third movement most astounding, since it lacks the airy, flighty tones of the typical minuet. However, in his intensity of interpretation, Schneider made it an even darker and more foreboding piece than usual...