Word: relaxedness
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The scene was much the same at Tachito Somoza's hilltop estate in Managua's El Retiro section. Nicaraguan generals, journalists and crew-cut American hucksters panting to sell prefab housing units milled about one day last week waiting for an audience with the general. Somoza's...
In a crackdown worthy of more conventional Communist capitals, Belgrade has been waging a noisy war against villains ranging from "bourgeois nationalists" and "anarcho-liberals" at home to various unnamed "Western powers" abroad. The tough verbal salvos have been backed up by a campaign aimed at administering a strong dose...
MANAGUA was never quite as idyllic as the pop hit of the postwar 1940s made it out to be. Until last week, Nicaragua's capital (pop. 400,000) was a city of sharp contrasts: of wood and tin shacks in the crowded downtown slums, of office towers and modern...
It was a gala day in Bangkok. Prince Vajiralongkorn was being invested at Parliament House as heir to the throne of Thailand, and most foreign diplomats, including Israeli Ambassador Rehavam Amir, were among those attending the ceremony. In short, the city's embassies were quiet and relaxed. All, that...
In characteristic Bernstein style, Lenny relaxed for only a few moments as a pair of suddenly awe-struck students resumed playing the sonata. Then he jumped to his feet. "No, no," he said. "You play it without feeling. Too much staccato. Please, please, play this more smoothly." Bumping a student...