Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second revolution was launch-almost immediately upon Castro's coming to power. Draper classifies it as a member of the Communist family of revolutions, since it turned against the middle class democrats who had overthrown Batista and began to regiment the proletariat and peasantry. It proceeded so far during Castro's first year in power that the Hubert Matos affair late in 1959 signaled the "point of no return...
...lovely daughter; a Japanese engineer; a Chinese 'Cliffie; an electric company meter-reader; a Negro house man and his lovely daughter (a Vassar graduate); Farr's latest mistress, her real lover--the list continues, and continues. Not content with saving a handful of people Wylie insists on a whole regiment. Indeed he has little choice: with so many themes to handle, he needs a wide variety of ministers to preach, and sinners to reform. He also needs time, so he keeps his actors underground for two years...
...full-page article in the old New York American, the noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz heralded the coming exhibition in phrases so extravagant that it hardly seemed possible that the show would live up to his claims. "This glorious affair," he wrote, "is coming off at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Don't miss it. If you still belong to the respectable old first primer class in art, you will see there stranger things than you ever dreamed were on land or sea-and you'll hear a battle cry of freedom without any soft pedal...
...Dennis Ralston: the national indoor tennis championship, by beating Britain's Mike Sanfjster, 22, in four hard-fought sets with his smoking ground shots and slicing service at Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. Though Ralston, 20, is considered one of the best U.S. tennis prospects in years, his incendiary temper has often been his undoing; his racket slamming and blue language in a 1961 Davis Cup match against Mexico earned him a four-month suspension. This time, he slipped only twice, bellowing out "Concentrate!" and "You idiot!" at himself when he fluffed a couple of easy shots...
When the musicians of the Leningrad Philharmonic take the stage they look a little like a guards regiment on parade. They march on from opposite wings in cadenced step, and at times all 106 of them sit down in a single movement. Seated, they sometimes look to the casual observer about as animated as the tenants of a wax museum. But the appearance is deceiving. The Leningrad, now on its first tour of the U.S., is one of the world's great orchestras...