Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Poetry always suffers in translation, and Carson McCullers' poetic novel is no exception to the rule. Yet the film has some worthwhile aspects: Alan Arkin's marvelous portrayal of a mute whose silence is deafening, and Sondra Locke as a poignant antiheroine...
...U.S.S.R. are the sole members of the superpowers' club in which the chief rule is survival...
...Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe," declared Bis marck. Between periods of self-rule, Bohemia fell to the Avars in the 5th century, later to the German emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and finally to the Habsburgs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs and the Slovaks were perhaps the first people in Central Europe to develop a sort of natural identity, and their first weapon was religion. They won from Rome the right to conduct their religious services in Slavonic in the 9th century. Partially as a result of this independence, the Czechs started...
...five-week European tour. At season's end, he ceases to be the Philharmonic's permanent conductor, and plans to de vote most of his time to writing music; his first big project is a new Broadway production based on Brecht's The Exception and the Rule. By virtue of his achievements with the Philharmonic and as composer, author, pianist and TV personality-not to say his new eminence as a 50-year-old-Bernstein is entitled to be called American music's most ar ticulate elder statesman, a status that he will doubtless relish. Last...
...case loads in the process. Far more dramatic is the current slowdown by Federal Aviation Administration air-traffic controllers, which has snarled airports in metropolitan New York and elsewhere with flight delays. Unhappy over a manpower shortage and congested skyways, the traffic controllers have been playing strictly by the rule book in clearing planes for take-offs and landings. They scored one breakthrough earlier this month when Congress empowered the FAA to hire an additional 2,439 air controllers. Last week they scored another when Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd warned that Washington would limit traffic at New York airports...