Word: pliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear. Designers Ming Cho Lee and Jose Varona filled the New York State Theater stage with a zany array of colors and shapes, set off from time to time by flickering strobe lights and blats from offstage brass players. Soprano Beverly Sills and Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle curved their pliant voices brilliantly around the sinuous Rimsky-Korsakov melodies, and the results restored to life a witty, fantastic and unduly neglected score...
...English country town. In the serial, Sister George performs good deeds and put-puts around on her motor bike singing hymns with homey off-pitch piety. Off the air, in her London flat, Sister George is a horsy, cigar-chewing, gin-swilling, bull-roaring lesbian who coarsely flays her pliant companion, "Childie...
...actionary objectives." Zycie Warszawy, the government's prominent morning paper, came out for the cardinal's ouster from the church's leadership and his replacement by Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek of Wroclaw, the cardinal's second in command and a man considered more "reasonable" and pliant. But even the archbishop must raise a few Red doubts. "On questions of the existence of the church," Archbishop Kominek vowed recently, "we [the hierarchy] are always together...
...powerful prejudice," declared that "the Russian experiment in socialism is scarcely more radical under modern conditions than the Declaration of Independence was in the days of George III." In his 1964 "Old Myths and New Realities" speech, delivered to a nearly empty Senate chamber, Fulbright urged a more pliant policy toward Red China. As for U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, the Senator condemned Washington's "exaggerated estimates of Communist influence...
...hundred strong and packing 25 tons of scenery, Britain's Royal Ballet moved into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week to begin its long-awaited three-month tour of the U.S. For the occasion a new 56-ft. by 46-ft. stage of pliant plywood was constructed over the Met's pitted and creaking timbers. On opening night virtually every square foot of the new stage was covered with dancers as the company unveiled Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's lavish new version of Romeo and Juliet. For many in the celebrity-studded audience, headed by Vice...