Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond such steps, of course, remains the most troublesome issue: Taiwan. Washington steadfastly maintains that it is committed to Chiang Kai-shek's government, and by implication to his claim that he still heads the Republic of China. The U.S. is indeed committed to Chiang's regime by ties of history and honor. But it need not and cannot much longer sustain the fiction that Taiwan is China...
...crew brought the nation and the world the most revealing views of space flight that have ever been available. Remarkable as they were, however, the televised pictures that came across nearly a quarter of a million miles could not begin to match the quality of the movie and still photographs taken by the astronauts...
...Conductor Gustav Mahler ushered in another Golden Age of Viennese opera by stressing dramatic stagecraft as well as musical excellence in his productions. The years that followed were a time of great names (Enrico Caruso, Maria Jeritza, Lotte Lehmann, Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini) and spectacular gestures. Many Viennese still remember the flamboyant tenor Jan Kiepura, who after performances serenaded his fans from the roof of a taxicab outside the stage door...
More than half the mothers in her study eventually married, and despite the stereotype of the fatherless slum family, half of them were still in touch with the first child's father or living with him. Although half the women were less than 20 years old when they had their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear...
...bound to the wall by strands of concentration-camp barbed wire. Another piece consists of a plaster "torso" wearing a bloodstained gray jacket, its arms flung out handless in the posture of a crucifix. Two or three blood-red cloth carnations sprout from the jacket's inside pockets. Still another assemblage presents a shoe embedded in a plaster block. Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole...