Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meter, then flake out along the curb for a legal dose of sun tan. Wall posters, in the style of China's Red Guard movement, abound-most of them signed "Love" or "Peace" and bearing such timeless messages as "Gypsy come home-your mother is pushed out of shape...
...mother spacecraft, lifting bodies will be maneuvered in space with thrusters, much like conventional spacecraft. After they enter the atmosphere, however, the wingless craft will be piloted like gliders to land at existing airports, using their control flaps to maneuver and deriving necessary lift from their aerodynamic shape. Thus the reusable ships could probably become the space age's most utilitarian vehicles...
...orchestra and Conductor Daniel Hathaway both seemed more at home in the romantic Siegfried Idyll. For the first time there was an attempt to provide the music with a decent amount of expression, dynamic contrast, and formal shape. Thrown into relief by the work's reduced instrumentation, the winds--except for the French horns--showed themselves capable of an incisive handing of leitmotif and at times produced a positively luscious ensemble sonority...
Harvard is stronger and more fit than it has been all year. Jeff Huvelle, who was third in the IC's last week, could challenge young in the 600, if healthy Mark Johnson, whose leg has been bothering him all season, is also finally in shape. His chances are not so good in the broad jump, but a third of fourth is a possibility...
...three years important developments were to mar this image. Early 1958 witnessed the inauguration of the Great Leap Forward, and within three years the regime's fortunes had dipped to a low point. By the winter of 1960-61, industrial, development was sharply curtailed, agriculture was in bad shape, and massive imports of foreign grain were begun (imports still continue). Moreover, a number of leaders throughout the country were purged or demoted--although none of them were nearly so important as Kao Kang. To halt the deterioration of the system and to ensure the cohesiveness of leadership, a number...