Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casualties as an indication of the success of his policies. "The casualties which our television viewers heard on their television programs tonight were one-half of what they were at this same week two years ago, and one-seventh of what they were at this week in 1968. So progress is being made." Nixon made no mention of Vietnamese casualty figures...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has had no luck in getting Israel to accept his proposals for settling the military impasse along the Suez Canal. He has, however, made progress in prompting Arab unity. Last week he signed an agreement of "confederation" with Syria's Lieut. General Hafez Assad and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Despite the optimistic tone of the announcement in Cairo's semi-official newspaper Al Ahram, Sadat gave no indication of what form the new confederation would take, or when it might go into effect...
Screening Centers. Even greater potential for progress is offered by the digital computer. Various types of computers have already proved their value in the area of information handling, allowing physicians to store complete medical records and retrieve them at the touch of a few keys on a typewriterlike office terminal. Now computers are being put to even greater use by physicians seeking to plan treatment programs for their patients. Doctors at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, N.H., have programmed their Honeywell computer to sort through some 20,000 different radiation-treatment plans and extract the ten most suitable...
...because the difficulty of the music, the problems in performance, and the relative unpopularity of the style all militate against either a decent production or a box office success. The main reason. it seems, Lowell House was able to stage its elaborate production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress is the hundred and fifty or so opera patrons, ranging from Nathan Pusey to McGeorge Bundy, who paid twenty dollars apiece for the privilege of attending Thursday night's black tie opening and reception in the Lowell House dining hall...
...RAKES PROGRESS, with its Stravinsky score, its W. H. Auden-Chester Kallman libretto, and its ultimate genesis in Hogarth, is one of the most interesting artistic ventures of the century. Tom Rakewell is portrayed as an innocent, even likeable young man, who is led astray by the conniving servant, Nick Shadow, and robbed of his riches and his innocence. After Rakewell has scorned his true love and taken up with the bearded lady, Shadow reveals himself as a diabolical agent, and plays Tom a card game, with Rakewell's soul as the stakes. Although Tom wins at this operatic Seventh...