Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sade was released from prison in 1790, he found himself a hero of the new revolution, and was made a judge. But the man who commended cruelty as a means of individual expression recoiled from institutionalized cruelty. Most of all, he denied that any man had the right to sit in judgment on another. He pardoned nearly every aristocrat brought before him, even spared the family of his detested mother-in-law. Soon he was arrested for "moderantism," was saved from the guillotine only by the fact that Robespierre fell from power the day before his scheduled execution...
...classic like the German mark after World War I, when prices multiplied 1.2 trillion times. But in recent months the boliviano has been clearly and dramatically on the skids. Since March the government has imported 55 tons of freshly printed currency. Newspaper vendors in La Paz sit surrounded by such mountains of bills that they look like tellers in a bank...
...spoken variation on one of his favorite themes. "It's not the taste of the modern audience which I think decadent." he declaimed, "but rather its character and individuality." The dogmatic tastes of today's audiences are rooted in their esthetic laziness. "I'd much rather sit at dinner next to one of those old ladies who tell you, 'Picasso is a fraud and Stravinsky a bore,' than beside one of those young things who rave about their Klee paintings and their Bartok quartets . . . Today Brahms can no longer be tolerated, but Rossini is very...
...harsh winds of crisis shifted north from Suez to the sandy reaches that in a lusher day were known as the Fertile Crescent (see map). There sit three nations-Syria, Iraq and Jordan-whose borders were drawn largely by the British, largely on sand. Last week, with Britain's last shreds of authority being blown away, these three Arab states were exposed in all their perishability to the full blast of nationalist bent and Soviet propaganda...
Cranks (by John Cranko; music by John Addison) is a pint-sized English revue with a Jeroboam's worth of frills. Three men and a girl squeal or kneel or sit with their backs to the audience, climb things while they rhyme things, weave about or dance or contort while singing ballads or blues. In a welter of shifting lights, one revue number slithers into the next while the performers act as their own stagehands...