Word: stern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal image. He is a sad-eyed, dour, defensive loner who will run from a circle of party chatterers rather than make small talk. When he emerges from the wings to perform, it is not with the elegant stride of a Milstein or the open-armed warmth of a Stern. It is with a rapid, open-toed, Chaplinesque shuffle. When Zukofsky plays, his music often consists of a series of brash scrapes, sharp squeaks and galloping glissandos that Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky never dreamed of. Sometimes, it seems that he is a man who cares little for the usual trappings...
...flee the present," he explains. "We want to feel the vibrations of great kings and queens." To get the right vibrations, his customers pay up to $2,500 for a fantasia. This year, however, the vibrations will not be quite the same: living up to its stern moralistic image, the government has banned the carnaval's Transvestite Ball, a gay affair that has always drawn homosexuals from all over the world...
...case his friends want ed to telephone him"; of the pair of Saint Bernards that follow their master everywhere - in their own chauffeured station wagon. But there is little glee in the telling. Author Szasz, 56, a Hungarian-born translator of novels, is in tent on drawing a stern conclusion -that a growing pack of petishists have come to treat their pets not as animals but as little furry people...
Loaded and Ready. The nuclear-powered, 85,350-ton "Big E," the world's largest fighting ship and first nuclear-powered surface war vessel, had been performing routine maneuvers on her way to a fourth tour in Viet Nam waters. It was 0819 hours. On the stern, 30 Navy aircraft were ready to be catapulted aloft. Loaded with 500-lb. bombs, rockets and air-to-air missiles, the planes of Carrier Air Wing Nine were going to wage a simulated attack on the barren island of Kahoolawe, some 85 miles southeast of Honolulu...
...dependents of Soviet diplomats were evacuated as Red Guards spat on them at the Peking airport and made them crawl under portraits of Mao Tse-tung; now these Soviet citizens are returning. A recent complaint to India over an attack on the Chinese embassy in New Delhi was stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark contrast to 1967, when at least twelve foreign embassies were besieged by Red Guards at one time or another. There is also evidence that overseas Chinese communities, most notably in Hong Kong and in Burma, have been...