Word: sala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People's Choice. By sacking Glubb, Hussein made himself King before his subjects in fact as well as in title. Overnight he was the hero of the Palestinians. Newspapers hailed him as "the new Sala-din." When he toured the refugee centers, frenzied crowds tore off his red-checkered headdress and bore him through the streets shouting: "Long live Hussein-with his sword we will go to war!" Legionnaires shouted: "Back to Palestine!" "It was the first time in the history of the Hashemite family that one of them stood up to the British," said a former Hussein critic...
Slithery Glissando. The Mixturtrau-tonium, originally developed by a German physics professor in 1930 and later refined by Engineer-Composer Oskar Sala. is a complicated monster operated by pressing the fingers on two strings through which runs a weak electric current. By shifting his fingers along the strings much like a violinist and by working switches and pedals, the player can-at least theoretically-produce notes and pre-set chords of every imaginable color, frequency and strength. But so far the Mixturtrautonium can be played only by Engineer Sala...
...Martenot, sister of the instrument's builder, started off with the Ondes Martenot. With remarkable technique, she coaxed from the instrument a synthetic cascade of notes, often shrill, occasionally pleasant, accompanied by a wildly modernistic orchestral background. She got a big hand from the audience. After intermission, Oskar Sala sat down before his Mixturtrautonium. To a tape-recorded background of shrill whistles, gongs, rattles and electronic drum sounds, he compounded the cacophony with his wildly incoherent themes. A third of the audience left before the end; those who stayed filled the hall with whistles and catcalls. Said a critic...
...direct challenge to Bologna's Communist Mayor Giuseppe Dozza, who knew all about what had happened in Ravenna. Big, smiling Comrade Dozza, 53, decided to stage a children's party of his own-a masked ball in the city's stateliest chamber, the frescoed Sala Farnese, in what had once been a palace, and was now the city hall. Blandly assuring newsmen that there was no connection, he scheduled his ball for the same day as the cardinal's carnival...
When the big day came, Comrade Dozza strutted and beamed. Some 400 children romped in the Sala Farnese-some in 18th century costumes, some dressed as little workers, with appropriate red masks. Outside, Margherita Gardens lay silent and deserted under a foot of snow, while the cardinal gloomed at home. With the long, austere days of Lent stretching ahead, it looked as if there would be no carnival that year...