Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Please don't give up on CENTO, the Central Treaty Organization [Sept. 18], just because the dictionary definition of "cento" is "a patchwork of incongruous parts." Actually, the word has another meaning in Japanese: "a public bath," where people share the feeling of togetherness in a very natural way. Isn't that one of the most desirable connotations for such an alliance...
...grand concerto for voice and orchestra" and an "opera written in concert form," has already thrilled audiences in more than half a dozen U.S. cities. Last week at New York City's Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra showed off Alice as a fantastical and captivating musical Wonderland, a patchwork of warm, catchy tunes and blaring dissonances as crazily charming as the Mad Hatter...
...associate member. Iraq was dropped after a radical leftist government came to power in 1958, and the alliance moved its headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara. The diplomats and generals who renamed the organization CENTO presumably never bothered to check the dictionary, which defines "cento" as "a patchwork of incongruous parts"?hardly the most desirable connotation for a regional military alliance...
Today the patchwork is in shreds. At every level its members are beset by serious, interrelated troubles, and some leaders fear the great game is in danger of being lost. Iran, for all its pretensions to being a modern arsenal, is torn by internal dissent. Insofar as the nation is able to look outward, it is the only regional CENTO power that regards the Soviet Union as its principal enemy...
...elevated train tracks of the Jamaica Ave. subway--the last of the rusting steel dinosaurs that once roamed all across New York's working-class neighborhoods. The El is the last remaining symbol of the era, long forgotten, when New York was a carefully-watched melting pot, a neat patchwork of ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods linked by the roaring steel subways that carried people to and from their work. Now that era is gone, destroyed as methodically as if someone had taken one of those frighteningly indiscreet air-hammers to it. And there is no work...