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...stuck to business management. Mama Winifred stayed away. Wieland's new productions were aimed imaginatively toward new, always controversial, often brilliantly successful dramatic ideals. Instead of the heavily literal, violently brassy, pompous stagings admired by Hitler, in which choral scenes often resembled SS rallies in a Black Forest thicket, Wieland created stark, impressionistic stage pictures with a shaft of light here, a barren rock there. To enhance Bayreuth as a cultural force of worldwide significance, Wieland broke with the old chauvinistic policies toward performers and imported singers and conductors of all nationalities. Bayreuth's postwar glory, in fact...
...with the plight of developing nations, which must start clearing their underdeveloped land if they are to meet the food needs of their burgeoning populations. Dramatizing the role it can play, Cat recently completed a test project in Costa Rica demonstrating that modern equipment can clear the densest jungle thicket for about $50 an acre; with older methods, the cost can run as high as $500. Beyond immediate clearing jobs, Caterpillar can expect to reap long-range benefits from seeing foreign countries become agriculturally self-sufficient. Explains Blackie: "If they don't have to import wheat, they can import...
...fourth time, the grizzled old Texan from the Big Thicket was hauled up before the court for making moonshine. Since the judge knew that the old man made whisky only for his own use, he spoke gently. "George, the commercial distillers put out a real good product these days, and they sell it at a reasonable price. I know you don't have much money, but it would be far better for you simply to buy a bottle every now and then than to keep on making this stuff and keep on getting caught...
...trying to build a giraffe out of a Tinkertoy. He is 38, though his croppy thatch of sandy hair makes him look like a delinquent graduate student. A lean 6 ft. 2 in., he is a rangy tangle of angular limbs; in action, karate-chopping his way through a thicket of villains, he suggests Ichabod Crane doing the jerk...
...this court to order any member of the House of Representatives, any officer of the House or any employee of the House to do or not to do any act related to the organization of membership of that House would be for the court to crash through a political thicket into political quicksand...