Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mufti is a personage who draws cabinet minister's pay and ranks in the Egyptian scheme of things right after the commander in chief of Egypt's armed forces. Answering citizens' questions about what things may be done without breaking the fast, the mufti announced that Moslems may kiss their wives during the fasting hours, even on the lips, so long as the kiss is only "friendly" and does not "excite sexual desire." The mufti also ruled that the traditional full Arab habit has nothing to do with fasting, that it is all right for women...
...desire to improve on creation." The new object is to surprise not only the audience but the performers and the composer himself. When he was asked to write a piece for the Circle in the Square Composers' Showcase series, Cage sat down and worked out his basic time scheme according to the haphazard intersection of curves on a piece of graph paper. Then he asked the performers to write on 20 cards "a noun or verb or combination of both with which they would care to associate themselves." When a performer shuffles the cards and finds himself confronted with...
...Months ago he began railing at the new states of West Africa to join him in a Union of African States to foil a "colonialist plot" that aimed at "Balkanizing" the continent. His neighbors, fearing that Nkrumah had in mind a little colonizing of his own, brushed aside the scheme. Undaunted, Nkrumah has even written his Pan-African hopes into a new constitution that would give him power to dissolve Parliament and veto its acts whenever he felt that an emergency required it. "In the confident expectation of an early surrender of sovereignty to a union of African states...
Strauss's scheme began with complaints from West Germany's military men over lack of training space and rear-area supply for their growing forces. With most of West Germany's choice ground and air bases occupied by British or U.S. forces, the Bundeswehr had no range on which it could carry out air-to-air, or air-to-ground missile firings, and what little flying Luftwaffe pilots could get in was done under the noses of Soviet observation posts on the East German border. So precious is space within West Germany's constricted borders that...
CAPITAL AIRLINES, having trouble breaking into a jet-age profit (1959 loss: more than $1,000,000), will have its corporate face lifted to present a more attractive appearance to travelers. Capital will dump its "garish red" color scheme in favor of a "soothing blue," will retire its flying eagle trademark for a new oval...