Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family joke on a national scale, a source of passionate chauvinism if you were born there, of instant derision if you were not. "Where are we?" asks the disoriented passenger. "Nowhere," says the hackie. "We're in Brooklyn." From the height of vaudeville to the early days of TV, a comic had only to intone "Flatbush" to fracture the folks out front. The gibes even led to a society for the Prevention of Disparaging Remarks about Brooklyn. But who today bothers to disparage Brooklyn...
...abrupt and traumatic. In the past 15 years alone, 5,000,000 Negroes have moved into U.S. inner-cities. From 1950 to 1960, Detroit gained 185,000 Negroes, lost 361,000 whites. St. Louis lost 22% of its entire white population, San Diego 15.4% , Newark 23.7% . Violence on the scale of the Watts and Harlem riots has so far been rare-partly because the heavy concentration of Negroes in Northern cities has given them powerful new political muscle. "If he hadn't been urbanized, the Negro wouldn't have become a political factor and thus able to change...
Complex Tapestry. Yet as opera, Don Rodrigo was something less than a torrid success. Ginastera's score, based on a twelve-tone scale and structured after the manner of Alban Berg's groundbreaking 1921 masterwork, Wozzeck, struck the ear but not the heart. It was a complex musical tapestry, flecked with startled tones of brass and wood wind and splotched with splashes of percussion. In total, the score failed to achieve the delineation of character and dramatic thrust that distinguish great opera from good. Don Rodrigo was nonetheless an adventure worthy of the underwriting (by Mrs. John...
Affairs at State also deals with the low pay-scale which, Mr. Villard believes, causes many able, would-be diplomats to choose a career elsewhere. He cites the institution of lateral appointments which seriously dampens the incentive of those hoping to move up the ladder. Finally, and pointedly, he describes the insufficient housing allowance provided for U.S. representatives abroad and the total lack of such allowance for Foreign Service personnel temporarily stationed at home...
...valley. The marines were soon off hunting anew, as helicopters poured thousands of leathernecks into Phuoc Valley in search of the Viet Cong 1st Regiment. Directly to the south, Operation White Wing, which so far has accounted for nearly 1,500 Communists killed, continued in smaller-scale, company-size operations by the 1st Air Cav. Though Double Eagle and White Wing failed to make contact with the four Communist regiments operating in Binh Dinh, the 1st Air Cav scored a notable coup last week. Its men captured Viet Cong Lieut. Colonel Dong Doan, who obligingly led them straight...