Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commander of the military, he finally accepted the dinner invitation of a particularly insistent congressional deputy, he arrived at an opulent apartment on Copacabana beach, watched silently after dinner while his host showed off a gallery of possessions: 50 suits, 25 pairs of shoes, bulky silverware, art treasures. "Wait till you see my wife's wardrobe," said the deputy. "No thank you," replied Costa, "I have seen enough." Within the next few days, he canceled the deputy's mandate and suspended his political rights "for ostentatious and conclusive evidence of corruption...
...some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung and write "confessions" till late at night-an exercise that lasted 50 days. Allowed to return to his music academy in mid-August, he was then set upon by the Red Guards and exposed to the humiliation he described in New York...
39TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS PRESENTATION (ABC, 10 p.m. till conclusion). Hope returns with this year's team of presenters, including Fred Astaire, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, Vanessa Redgrave, Patricia Neal, Audrey Hepburn...
...that for many of his students the problems are financial, Becker helps them to find after-school jobs, adjusts the classroom schedule to fit working hours. Students on a 4-to-12 p.m. work shift, for example, are permitted to come to classes from around 10 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon. They are given the regular amount of classwork but granted exemptions from gym and study periods. Some students are allowed to blend daytime class and work schedules, alternating one week on a job with a week of classes. For those in desperate money trouble, there...
Even the central scenes, sad to say, have been slashed for the sake of speech till nothing of the psychomythical significance remains and very little of the Joyce voice and its whilom Irish music. For those who have the patience and the intellectual equipment to read it, the novel is something very like a revelation; the film is not much more than a titillating tale intoned like the Gospel according to Joyce...