Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilkins, alone, launched a full-scale attack against the concept of black power, going so far as to deplore the very use of the words. "Black power is racism in reverse," he said, reassuring the white liberals in the N.A.A.C.P. that they were needed, after all. Lillian Smith, author of Killers of the Dream and one of CORE's charter members, summarized the feelings of many white members of SNCC and CORE when she left the organization in a huff of epithets: "nihilists, old-fashioned haters, the new 'killers of the dream...
...Blues had killed 91 of the enemy. Some 70 of them turned out to be from the Aircav's old foe in previous Binh Dinh battles: the North Vietnamese 610th Sao Vang (Yellow Star) Division. With the Sao Vang as quarry, Operation Washington Irving rapidly mounted in scale. A large force from South Korea's Capitol Division wheeled in from the south. A contingent of South Vietnamese troops rushed in from the west. Closing the vise, the 1st Cavalry bored in from the north. With their back to the sea, where the rockets and guns of U.S. Navy...
...Sunrise. Produced last week, it was the most lavish spectacle ever conjured by the Met, a triumph in a season of new productions that so far have ranged from big-scale to boffo. In Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...
Houston, the headquarters for the manned space program, last week launched a festival that on the civic scale amounted to an Apollo program for the arts...
...disturbing. "Pierrot Le Fou" is an extension of Godard's preoccupation with the importance of human values in a world of emotional and intellectual bankruptcy. Godard's pessimistic attitude indirectly makes his lament more powerful than in his previous films, and in "Pierrot," Godard is working on a larger scale than before...