Word: sung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first tightened, then abolished martial law, launched an anticorruption campaign, and promulgated a new constitution. He spared the life of Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, an act that contributed to the success of Chun's February call on President Reagan. Chun has also shrewdly challenged Dictator Kim II Sung to attend a precedent-setting Korean unification summit. Last week, in an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald, Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold and Correspondent S. Chang in Seoul's executive mansion, Chun discussed policy problems and his belief that "providence" guides his rule. Excerpts...
...inviting North Korean Communist Boss Kim II Sung to talk about reunification: I made my proposal as an unconditional offer of a dialogue. This is prompted not because there were hopeful signs. On the contrary, the North is as hostile toward us as ever. But we are maintaining peace at a considerable cost to ourselves and our allies. To make war less likely, it is important that I meet with Kim II Sung. He has experienced the Korean War and has personal recollections of that war. If he should die, his son would take over. Now here we would have...
Distrust and hostility have been reinforced by concrete evidence of North Korean provocations, so you cannot blame the people for distrusting the North Koreans-and I suppose they do not look upon us kindly. It is useless to talk to anybody other than Kim II Sung, so he and I must meet and begin a dialogue. Let us talk first of the relatively easy problems, so as to build up gradually an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence. We should persevere through this effort to begin the dialogue, which could make peace a little more secure, a little less precarious...
...fellow Composer Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity. They discovered the authentic tunes of the Magyars, largely based on modal orpentatonic (five-note) scales and sung to jagged, irregular rhythms, rather than the gypsy melodies used by Liszt, Brahms and even BartÓk in such early works as the Op. 1 Rhapsody that had previously passed for Hungarian folk music. On later journeys, BartÓk studied the music of the Rumanians, Bulgars, Slovaks and a group...
...latest tour included 14 singers (starting salary: $280 a week), a 23-piece orchestra, a conductor and assistant and five-member crew, all of whom have got into costume for the productions. Audience taste tends to restrict TOT'S repertory to the best-known works, which are sung in English. Says Company Manager Jim Toland, 36: "What else can you bring to someone who has never seen opera before but the great ones?" There is a little experimentation: Donizetti's Don Pasquale will be reset in modern Cuba. TOT is also limited to operas in which the chorus...