Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Camp Lejeune military jury trying a Marine pilot on charges that he recklessly flew his jet into the cables holding an Italian ski gondola fired a shot on Thursday that is bound to be heard around the world. The jury acquitted Capt. Richard Ashby on all charges for the...
Among the performing groups was the Harvard Philippine Forum, which danced between rapidly moving bamboo poles in a style similar to double-dutch jump rope.
Voltaire's central theme in Candide is that the simple life is best and that one must cultivate one's own garden. The Dunster House Opera remained true to Voltaire's dictate, with an uncomplicated set made up of a backdrop representing the blue sky and two poles upon which...
And on it went. Nuccio's performance as Voltaire himself, Dr. Pangloss, Cacambo and Martin wowed the audience. One of Nuccio's most memorable numbers is in the angrily energetic "Auto Da Fe" (riot), when he, playing Dr. Pangloss, sings about how he contracted a virus most resembling syphilis in...
In his In the Name of Eugenics (1985), an invaluable source for everyone interested in this strange movement, historian Daniel J. Kevles notes, somewhat dryly, that "eugenicists identified human worth with the qualities they presumed themselves to possess--the sort that facilitated passage through schools, universities and professional training." Kevles...