Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a special emphasis on objects in The Three sisters, which rules out the use of stylized settings. In the huge cavernous space of the Festival theatre, one couldn't just construct the usual box of three walls and a ceiling. William Ritman has solved the problem nicely by having us face the living-room (and dining-room beyond) from the diagonal. And he has carefully included objects that tell us much about the characters of the household--little vases of lilacs or lilies-of-the-valley, framed pictures, an old square piano with a tasseled shawl, candle brackets...
...council is now in its summer recess and a special meeting will have to be called to act upon the rent control petition. Yesterday, there was speculation that a meeting might be called for later this week...
Since Mayor Walter J. Sullivan is out of Cambridge, calling a special meeting would be up to Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, who serves as vice-mayor. Vellucci was not available for comment last night...
After five years of haggling, the ten major financial powers of the non-Communist world agreed last week in Paris to introduce an international money: paper gold. Called Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, the new reserves will reduce nations' dependence on the diminishing supply of real gold in global finance and create new assets to sustain the growth of world trade. The SDRs will exist only in the ledgers of the International Monetary Fund. Its 111 member nations will be able to draw on these reserves to settle accounts among themselves, and central banks will have to accept them...
...recommended that the neighborhood board name a special five man committee to select his successor...