Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Kennedy's supporters felt he was getting a raw deal, they felt less badly about it by the end of the California primary. It finally appeared that John Kennedy's slight, shy brother had carved out a winning campaign style and more important, one that was his own. Few rhetorical flourishes, high-minded slogans; more caustic straight talk and grueling face-to-face contact. Kennedy gave the nation, as his press secretary Frank Mankiewicz, said, the rare belief that he was a politician who would do what he said, that his "campaign promises" were promises...
...Pentagon, hundreds of U.S. Marshals and thousands of troops faced 40,000 demonstrators. That was all it was--a raw, bitter confrontation. Two lines facing each other, looking at each other. There were sudden rushes into the line of troops drawn around the building--almost a giant game of capture the flag. In the end 600 were arrested...
Another novelty of the City Ballet season was the premiere of Stravinsky: Symphony in C by John Clifford, 20, one of the company's most promising male dancers. While Clifford still has much to learn about the techniques of polishing choreography, the hot wire of raw talent ran through the ballet. His infectious and sportive movements reflected the febrile delirium of young dancers in love with being young, in love with being dancers...
...sterling crisis; they are now supposed to limit wage and price hikes to an annual 31% increase. Businessmen, however, are constantly tempted to raise consumer prices by an extra dollop, using as their understandable excuse the fact that devaluation brought on an automatic increase in the cost of imported raw materials. On their side, unions are girding for a series of major contract negotiations this summer and autumn with wage-rise demands totaling more than a billion dollars. Among the demands: 3,000,000 heavy-machinery workers asking a 10% increase; 1,250,000 construction men seeking...
...Ravel, built, as it is, on the idea of the anti-dance dance. It has been made into a ballet despite the fact that its tantalizing rhythms and harmonies are meant to make the listener (or listener-dancer) trip over his own expectations. Stravinsky has built it from common raw materials--the same square meters and phrases which Ravel has used and only slightly modified. But Stravinsky has fractured them into suggestive fragments and then has rewelded them into eccentric patterns that are almost frightening (even to performers) in their ability to resist predictability...