Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensitive conducting, Wolfgang gave intimate poignancy to the often-slighted scene in which the knight, Von Stolzing. works out his song for the mastersinger's competition. At the end, Wolfgang toned down the eulogy to German art by the cobbler, Hans Sachs (at which German audiences used to rise reverently to their feet), and closed the opera on Sachs's more characteristic note of skepticism and resignation: "Folly, all is folly...
WEILL: The Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny (Columbia K3L-243). The most elaborate of the collaborations by Weill and Bertolt Brecht, with the great Lotte Lenya heading the cast...
...council may possible consider some "unfinished business" on its agenda, including a proposed amendment to the local zoning laws that would permit the construction of Cambridge Plaza, a high-rise office and apartment complex near the site of the future Kennedy Memorial Library...
...ghettos may be churning and racial tensions rising, but at the same time a social phenomenon is on the rise: the black and white date. The barriers that once stopped black and white youngsters from socializing are coming down fast in many parts of the land. On weekends, mixed couples by the dozens stroll in Manhattan's Central Park, through Chicago's Old Town and Hyde Park areas, in San Francisco's North Beach. The strongest enclave for interracial dating is the school or college campus. A poll taken recently at Detroit's Wayne State University...
Teen-age unemployment weighs most heavily on the ghettos. The jobless rate for all nonwhite workers rose from 6.4% to 7.2% last month, largely reflecting the rise in Negro teen-age joblessness, which, at 30%, is double the rate for white youths...