Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cemetery workers broke it up, but, back on the Via Padre Ludovico da Casoria, the fight started again. There were heavy casualties from flying pots, pans and chairs. Skulls were cracked and blood flowed. At week's end six of the injured were still in hospital. The Widow Cicatiello gave up trying to make peace, took a plane back to tranquil Providence...
Franco was still beaming next day as he gave Abdullah a spectacular public embrace. Madrid declared a national holiday the better to welcome the royal guest. One peevish cobbler grumbled: "Haven't we enough saints' days which keep us from working without a Moorish king thrown in as well...
Denied other halls by the government and by leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, wife of the old Marshal of Verdun and Vichy, now sharing his exile on the Ile d'Yeu, brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
...traditional twelve-tone scale, Paris' newspaper Le Figaro wondered, "exhausted to the point where a new tone scale should take its place?" Or was it still possible "to discover new expressions and new harmonies" inside the old scale? In short, had musical composition become "a problem of vocabulary or a problem of style?" Last week, after mailing questionnaires to French composers to find out, Le Figaro had some answers...