Word: rug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tells it, Choreographer George Balanchine likes to create a ballet by "opening the icebox door," rummaging around inside and producing random combinations that look "appetizing."' Sometimes he finds pretty strange things in the icebox. His latest discovery: a rug. Balanchine was inspired by an analysis by Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope of the formal structure of Persian carpets, in which the patterns were compared to polyphony in music and some of the figures to fertility symbols. The resulting work, a diverse, pseudo-Oriental affair titled The Figure in the Carpet, had its première last week with...
This time the Opposition hungrily decided that the Pentagon had pulled the rug from under Diefenbaker for good. Socialist Leader Hazen Argue, who argues that Canada should spend its defense money on international good works, angrily shouted that Canadian defenses were "useless and due for a complete overhaul." For the Liberals, Lester ("Mike") Pearson charged that "every dollar being spent on Bomarc is in great danger of being wasted...
...During the war, he took N.C.R. into defense work, but made sure he would be ready for the worldwide boom he saw ahead. With peace, Allyn hurried to Germany to check on N.C.R.'s Berlin plant. It was gone. "The Russians had rolled up our plant like a rug and hauled it behind the Iron Curtain," says Allyn...