Word: trios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manufacturer, was the inventor of Life Savers; his mother, unhappy, nervous, was preternaturally possessive. Crane and each of his parents, Unterecker explains, "concerned with immense problems, anxiously kept them from the other two." Yet each kept "guessing and misunderstanding the motives and actions of the others." To know this trio requires reproducing hundreds of letters, in which the Cranes destroyed each other in the language of greeting cards. The correspondence is a trial to biographer and reader, especially in view of the sickening domestic sentimentality that surrounded all the Cranes...
Laird's opponents are not convinced. Among the most outspoken is an M.I.T. triumvirate-Jerome Wiesner, who was scientific adviser to President Kennedy; George Rathjens, recently of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Steven Weinberg, a physicist. In a critique released last week, the trio argued "In order to launch a first strike of the sort envisioned by Secretary Laird, the Soviets would need SS-9s with extraordinary accuracy and high reliability; they would need to solve the problem of coordinating an attack on our bombers and Minutemen; they would need to deal with our nuclear-armed...
...lecturing at the University of Basel. The vacancies have been filled by Soviet-lining conservatives, including Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, who won infamy last August as two members of the lone trio of Czechoslovaks who initially cooperated with the Russian invaders. The purges continue throughout the country, and more than 2,000 "control and revision" committees have been set up to oversee the ouster of lesser party officials and state bureaucrats whose liberal tendencies conflict with the policies of the new regime...
...Rivera) to the on stage accompaniment of a genuine seven-course lute, is supported in the background by a group of men singing in harmony, whose major-minor shifts are charming. The solemn song near the end, "Pardon, goddess of the night," has been turned into a men's trio, with off-stage instrumental accompaniment...
...When the trio of traitors--Cambridge, Scroop, and Grey--are sentenced to death, instead of being borne away to their doom they act out in pantomime (to the accompaniment of claves) their impalement on wooden poles by three guards, turning on their knees to the audience with hands upstretched and then collapsing to the ground. Fair enough--but then the whole silent mime is gone through twice more, which is just plain silly...