Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threats or dangerous blandishments. They are strong enough to engage in their own bridge-building between East and West, and they are quite capable of deciding when and how they want to join in our own bridge-building. Perhaps the best thing we can do for them at this stage in their internal recovery and their adjustment to new power relations in the world is to leave them politically alone while reassuring them of our military backing...
...bill is designed to "ease neighborhood disruptiveness," White said, by providing a three-stage process to phase out discrimination...
Helms became head of the plans division in 1962, when CIA's top echelon was reorganized as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. At this stage, the agency was smarting under severe external criticism and riven by intramural factionalism. Helms, even-tempered and affable, managed to avoid office politics and grudges...
...wholly succeed. The part demands the range of a concert virtuoso, for Hamlet is both gentle and brutal, passionate and detached, slow to act yet violent in action-a volatile tangle of will, thought, word and deed. Hamlet is also the first supremely self-conscious hero to tread the stage. This is where Richard Pasco's failure is most manifest. He portrays a computer's Hamlet, mechanically feeding himself punch cards marked Father's Ghost, Ophelia, Laertes, Horatio, Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and responding mechanically to them. His co-players do not perceptibly help...
Fahlstrom sees a similarity between his techniques and the blank scores of Composer John Cage, who likes to give his performers a chance to improvise, and to the plays of Dramatist Peter Weiss, who allows theatrical directors to stage his dramas in widely varying versions and lengths. Still, it would take more talent than the average collector possesses to "participate" in one of Fahlstrom's masterpieces, Dr. Schweitzer's Last Mission. It consists of eight painted metal boxes, ten cutout boards and 50 magnetic cutouts, many of them hung by nylon threads from the walls and ceiling...