Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gunther Schuller, 35, stepped into the pit at Manhattan's City Center to conduct the première of his Modern Jazz: Variants, a score for a George Balanchine ballet. Onstage were the white-tied-and-tailed members of the Modern Jazz Quartet and around them, in predominantly green and purple practice clothes, moved the members of the New York City Ballet company, including Soloists Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, John Jones, Arthur Mitchell. The dancing for the most part was sinuous and tentative, borrowing some of its movements from the Lindy Hop, but on the whole avoiding the Lindy...
...Apalachin raid was one of the most celebrated in U.S. police history: that spectacular occasion in November 1957 when New York State cops and federal agents picked up 63 high-muck-a-mucks of U.S. crimedom, all from one barbecue pit. That day, big-time hoods from as far away as Arizona and California arrived to roast steaks and toast marshmallows at the secluded estate of a beer distributor and longtime racketeer named Joseph Barbara...
Last week a U.S. Court of Appeals kicked the Government's case clean back to the barbecue pit: the court, reversing the convictions of the 20 hoods, ordered the charges dismissed. The main point of the unanimous decision by the three judges: Since the Government had not tried to prove that the meeting, in and of itself, violated any state or federal law, how could it prove that the defendants had conspired to lie about their presence there? The Government's "bootstrap" handling of the case, wrote Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard, was wholly unwarranted. "Bad as many...
...trusted. And small wonder, for he is. But he was not always so. Once there was a time when he was harried and driven by a domineering tutor and an iron system which kept him from becoming the man he potentially was. Now look at him. Pit him against the jungle. Match him with University Hall...
Last year Swedish Archaeologist Einar Gjerstad and Professor Antonio M. Colini, Rome's Director of Museums and Archaeological Excavations, started digging in a pit near a wall of the medieval church of St. Homobonus, patron saint of tailors. Penetrating 20 ft. down, they came to a layer of rubbly soil which they recognized as the earth-fill foundation of Roman temples of Mater Mututa, goddess of childbirth, and Fortuna, protectress of women who have been married only once. In this hallowed ground they found twelve fragments of dark brown pottery decorated with incised dots and geometrical figures...