Word: rising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Similarly, Dubček conceded on television what he called "deficiencies" in his policies and termed essential the elimination of points of conflict with the Soviet Union. At the same time, he pledged anew that there would be no return to the police-state practices that prevailed before his rise to power last January...
...bring a sense of power does achieve change-though more often it brings only violent reaction. There are other ways, and they work "Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down,' says John Gardner Yet even in despotic societies, good men have managed to rise against the odds and become the architects, not of revolution, but of peaceful change. This is true not merely of the obvious geniuses and unique innovators but of seemingly ordinary people...
Columns of Sound. Along with that utterance goes Berio's prodigious orchestral writing. Sinfonia contains some of the most novel rhythms and chords since Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. Great columns of dissonant, atonal sound seem to rise up with a towering permanence that belies the fact that the sound is composed of constantly moving parts. Often the music has a complexity that is normally achieved only with electronic synthesizers. At other times, it has the air of unexpectedness that is characteristic of chance, or aleatory, writing. Yet Berio employs neither electronics nor chance. Sinfonia is essentially...
...will this produce in the way of results and consequences? Since I am not trying to avoid difficult questions, I will admit that the results may not be entirely pleasant. Perhaps exclusion of CIA personnel might mean a gradual cutting off of federal funds for the EARC, or the rise of barriers to Harvard faculty desiring to enter government service, or a deficiency in the ability of "analysts" and others to correctly determine foreign policy. I hope I have accurately anticipated your worst fears, for to me, at least, none of these would be particularly distressing in the long...
...Buildings and Services Union care for about 1035 on-campus girls. This amounts to one-and-a-half employees for every ten girls--a rather high ratio for people with very little income and young enough to need little service, especially when the cost of this luxury could soon rise above the ability of many to pay. The obvious answer is to let Cliffies take care of themselves...