Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitch in and help down on the farm. After nine months' holiday, nearly all primary and some secondary schools were reopened. Skilled government and party workers were being restored to their jobs and to official favor. Above all, as a Central Committee directive made plain, the new theme was unity, specifically a "threeway alliance" among the army, the Red Guards and the party cadres. In one Kweichow cotton mill, reported the New China News Agency last week, 17 Maoist organizations had vied to outdo each other; no longer could China tolerate such extreme factionalism...
...British Army of the Rhine by two-thirds unless the West Germans helped to offset its foreign-exchange costs of $250 million a year. But also last week Wilson jetted to The Hague on his fifth mission to Common Market countries and reiterated a now familiar theme. His argument: the pound has become so stable that Britain could enter the market without much of a wrench-or without much danger that market members might have to bail Britain out of future financial crises...
...never written for solo cello before, and Piston displayed his own virtuosity by splashing forth a 23-minute polyphonic conversation organized as five variations on a theme. Brass and strings quarreled to the punctuation of tambourines and drums, then drifted in and out of harmony-while with his soaring silkiness, Rostropovich traced wide melodic angles ranging from sad loveliness to brittle dissonance. "I hope it is better than anything else I've written," said Piston. Then he set off to try to do even better on two new commissions. "You can't stop," he explained. "Music...
...solo was not instantly captivating; the orchestra plodded along sounding labored, even leaden. The second movement contained some beautiful moments. In the finale the orchestra caught fire, and Grossman's brilliance served him well. The movement was marred only by the orchestra's repeated failure to play the main theme truly pianissimo...
...Would you do it again?" the volunteers are asked on questionnaires at the end of their Peace Corps service. Nine out of ten say "Yes.". "We learned a lot," is the common theme. But there is all the difference in the world between young Americans learning "a lot" and official claims that the work of the Peace Corps is laying the foundation for a new world community. Jack Vaughn, the Peace Corps director, quoted with approval a Dominican official who sobbed that the Dominican Republic might have been spared its revolution and bloodshed if the Peace Corps had only sent...