Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Colonel Vasily de Basil, 63, onetime Czarist Cossack cavalryman, who in 1932 founded the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with the largest segment of the late Impresario Diaghilev's disbanded Ballet Russe; of a heart attack; in Paris. With such dancers as Danilova, Toumanova and Lichine he made the company popular and temporarily profitable (at least two of his U.S. tours grossed as high as $1,000,000 each...
...correspondence reflects a growing lack of faith by a large segment of our population in the responsibility and moral fiber of our own process of government. Truth has ceased to be keystone to the arch of our national conscience and propaganda has replaced it as the rallying media for public support. Corruption and rumors of corruption have shaken the people's trust in the integrity of those administering the civil power...
...stray from the reservation, overlooked the character of the military mind and the nature of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Even if some of them have been personally inclined to endorse MacArthur's program (and there was no testimony that any would buy more than perhaps a segment of it, if any, at this stage of the game), the climate of unification and loyalty to" the Commander in Chief was enough to keep the front united. Their answers had a conference-room sameness...
...gives me great pleasure again to find myself in your pages. Segment by segment I discover myself, as it were, variously listed in the index. I get myself into Letters; I've been in Books and also Radio & TV. Now I have achieved Press [April 30]. I'd love to make Cinema, but despair of Art or Science. Milestones will one day catch up with...
...attention Jews have come to pay to the figure of Jesus can ever lead to accepting him as the Messiah. The very idea of Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good men of all nations, races and religions...