Word: quilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedienne, but Billy was just Mr. Brice. Again Rose jumped, this time toward Broadway. In 1930 he produced Corned Beef and Roses. It was a loser from overture to finale. He rewrote it, renamed it Sweet and Low. Again it bombed. Again he rewrote it, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road for a nine-month run. Rose recouped the $75,000 it cost him to mount it and made $240,000 profit besides...
...wilderness. Last week the Deutsche Oper's 318-member traveling company performed it for the first time in Rome. The staging, obviously, was an unrealistic but no less gripping realization of Schoenberg's directions. The orgy scene was a stylized ballet danced against a crazy-quilt backdrop of emotionally escalating designs beamed from a dozen slide projectors. The tragic conflict between Moses-who, unable to articulate his spiritual vision, symbolically chants rather than sings his role-and the worldly, silver-tongued Aaron was portrayed with spare, stabbing precision. Schoenberg's monumental, jaggedly atonal score was a sometimes...
...home base in a nearby, boxlike valley. The 101st promptly ringed the Viet Cong on three sides of the valley, while 2nd Battalion Commander Colonel Wilfred Smith flew his three companies into the valley's portal by helicopter to close the trap. Trouble was, the dried-up quilt of rice paddies chosen for landing was hard by the V.C. camp. So the Screaming Eagles got the hot welcome of a Viet Cong battalion. "I've hit a buzz saw," Smith shouted into his radio as two choppers crashed. Smith lost all three of his company commanders...
...Crazy Quilt." Squirreled away in silos and warehouses, the mess is worth $6.8 billion, consists of 795 million bu. of wheat, 1.2 billion bu. of corn, 640 million bu. of grain sorghum, 12 million bales of cotton and 1.1 billion Ibs. of tobacco. Though it has shrunk somewhat as a result of Food for Peace shipments, this vast reserve costs $365 million a year merely to store, and threatens to expand again as a result of this year's mighty harvest-which Agriculture Department officials view as an unmitigated disaster...
...farmer. "Why don't they leave us alone?" cries Shuman. "Why don't they get out and let the farmers run their own business?" By "they" he means Congress, the army of Government farm experts commanded by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, and what Shuman calls the "crazy-quilt patchwork of stopgap farm programs"-all hopelessly complex, all composted of political expediency, and all, in Shuman's view, a complete failure...