Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan for a Central Business District is not quite so far along though we have already entered the early land-acquisition and construction stage. The Project will be carried on in stages and will endeavor to put some order into the mish-mash of narrow streets which we inherited from our forebears...
More disappointing were the two guest soloists, perhaps because of the attention drawn to them by separate billing and fancier stage protocol. In BWV 105 soprano Carole Bogard began confidently but was evidently unsure of most of the aria beyond the opening phrases. As the movement progressed she became increasingly dependent on the score in her hand, and while her opening phrases had been nicely shaped the rest was little more than competent reading. Still, she obviously had a good ear, enviable accuracy of pitch and a fair amount of vocal agility. Alto Eunice Alberts sang with the inertia typical...
...Washington, there was little public discussion in the early stage of the crisis. Only toward week's end did President Johnson publicly discuss it. By then, the worst of the general offensive seemed repulsed and the U.S. command in Saigon was reporting that the attacks had cost the Communists 14,997 dead (a figure considered by many to be inflated) against 367 American and 738 Vietnamese fatalities...
...wings of Wilson's Labor Party are in the full cry of revolt. Veteran Right Wing M.P. Desmond Donnelly has bucked party discipline, and called for Wilson's resignation. Says Laborite M.P. Reginald Paget: "It really boils down to the fact that Harold Wilson has reached the stage which Lloyd George reached at a certain point-that no one in the world believes a word he says...
...Metastaseis, leotard-clad dancers writhe, roll and wrestle around a bare stage against a stark background. But where the Balanchine ballet suggested the physics lab, the permutations of Ceremony smacked of the Kama Sutra in slow motion, as the dancers' bodies were juxtaposed in a complex series of stately tableaux. The maneuvers, however, were less sensual than static-and, accompanied as they were by a chilling, unromantic score, seemed as moving as a set of judo diagrams...