Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Bey Helou," and so on. The writing on such ballots is in fact a code. If a Deputy promises his vote to a candidate for office but there is some doubt as to whether in the actual voting he will really come through, he is instructed to phrase the ballot in a certain way, known only to the candidate and himself. When the ballot is read aloud, it thus reveals the Deputy's identity. In this typically Lebanese manner, it is possible to maintain the convention of a secret vote and still ensure that a politician...
...Gheorghiu-Dej has demanded, and swore that the purpose of the meeting was not to "excommunicate" anybody. Where earlier this year, Moscow had boasted that "nearly all" parties were in favor of a showdown summit, Pravda meekly moderated its claim last week to a mere "absolute majority." But the phrase that best revealed Khrushchev's uncertainty of control over his onetime charges was a promise "to collaborate conscientiously in those areas where positions and interests coincide, and to refrain in future from any actions harmful to the Communist movement which aggravate difficulties and bring happiness to our class enemies...
...diversion for the courtly company, a seasoned old fighter Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives seeking vegeance. The Tragedy unfolds austerely in flashbacks framed by Tsugumo's rather wordy debate with Lord Iyi's chief retainer, whose ridgid adherence to a feudal military system is summed up by the phrase: "In time of peace, ther is no hope...
...have never known a man who treated a gun as a symbol-instead of an instrument-who was not fundamentally depraved. When such an addict of romantic violence appears in politics mouthing left-wing slogans, are we to deny the insights of experience for the nostalgia of a phrase?" Roche also advises liberals to stop worrying and writing so much about the radical right. Right-wing extremists like the late Joseph F. McCarthy and Robert Welch must be fought but kept in perspective. After all, there has always been one or another on the rampage in every period of American...
...Mozart-who in composing it might have been affected by the breezes of Salzburg's Mirabell Palace gardens. Serenade ("Notturno") for Four Orchestras consists of make-believe echoes, in which a short statement by the first orchestra is repeated in turn by the other three, each abbreviating the phrase until the fourth sounds only a faint fragment of it-just as an echoed shout fades out in the distance...