Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single-minded opposition to the Viet Nam conflict. Party regulars are supporting him lukewarmly if at all. Despite a loyal army of 25,000 youthful McCarthyite volunteers, O'Dwyer seems certain to furnish liberal Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, 64, with his biggest majority in a 22-year string of victories...
Arias, not Action. The most radical of all these works is The Red Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual...
Even without a Dartmouth challenge, there was fierce competition for each of the seven scoring positions. The entire team was closely bunched at the start, and seven runners passed the mile mark together in 4:32. By the two-mile mark, the field had begun to string out, but seventh man John Heyburn was still only eleven seconds behind the leaders...
...hike came very late, in view of the economy's inflationary fever. Moreover, Congress abdicated its purse string power by insisting that the Administration cut $6 billion from expenditures. This may be a more important shift in congressional philosophy than the end of the long-standing alliance between Republicans and Southern conservatives, achieved by the new G.O.P. leadership's policy of offering alternatives, rather than merely saying...
Bruce also spoke of a new record he had just finished cutting called "Thing We Like." All the selections on it are compositions of his written over the last five years. Bruce plays string bass. The other players are relatively unknown. "The whole album is serialized improvisation. I've written all the tops and bottoms and provided serialized rhythms and pitches for the others to improvise upon." Influences of Schoenberg? "No, probably more Webern than anyone else, especially since many of the cuts are so short. One is fifty seconds long. Webern, man, he was too much! Years ahead...