Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music is necessarily dramatic, to compensate for the absence of visual cues and staging of live opera. The instrumental music also has to describe narrative movement and background, since the vocal part is simply a single voice which defines a stage in the maturing of its sensibility in each of eight arias. "The Moth Confesses is a condensed opera, "say the jacket notes, "with variations on a single literary theme: desperation...
...wake of President Richard Nixon's Viet Nam speech, the U.S. and North Viet Nam last week edged cautiously toward substance in the Paris peace talks. The movement, as usual, appeared tortuously slow. That was in part a measure of the distance that still separates the participants, but more important, it was a sign that each side has yet to render a final verdict on the other's proposal. After last week's session in the old Hotel Majestic, North Viet Nam's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, left Paris for his first visit home since...
...TIME, Feb. 21). According to Rabbi Joseph B. Glaser, co-chairman of the conference, one Presidio chaplain told him that "it is not my job to see if a military man has been dealt justice." At this point, said Glaser, he decided that chaplains "do not have freedom of movement, and they do not even have freedom of conscience." Glaser's proposal: abolish military clergy altogether...
Viet Nam is another Hoppe target. He writes that "in the 43rd year of our lightning campaign to wipe the dread Viet-Narian guerrillas out of West Vhtnnng," there was movement in Paris. After sitting at the same peace table with him for ten years, the lady representative of the guerrillas finally decided to recognize the enemy representative. Her historic words: "Hi there, General Hoo Dat Don Dar." But, laments Hoppe, "as the American and East Vhtnnngian negotiators cheered, waved flags and clapped each other on the back, General Hoo looked at her coolly. 'And who,' he said...
Died. Robert W. Goodman, 54, father of Andrew Goodman, one of three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi in 1964, whose dignity in the days following his son's murder helped inspire the moderate groundswell of opinion that rallied to the civil rights movement; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Said Goodman at the time: "Our grief, though personal, belongs to the nation. The values our son expressed in his simple action of going to Mississippi are still the bonds that bind this nation together...