Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scare those seeking light diversion, it must be mentioned that the program also included-cultural uplift. The opera Die Meisterslinger, composed by the Proposition's music director, John Forster, collated musical strains lifted from numerous operas. The work concerns a family tragically victimized by circumstance and a villainous slumlord. The son of the house, Juan Valdes, is a junky and a pimp, and the daughter Aida turns out to really be ... well, it's not fair to spoil the suspense...
Closely related to the student protests is the growing movement for black student power. From Yale to San Francisco State, Negro activists and some white supporters have sought to make the university become more active in uplift drives in the slum community, to introduce more courses in Afro-American history, and to recruit more Negro students, professors and administrators. In most cases, the administration has quickly acceded to the demands. Last week the trustees of California's 18 state colleges voted to increase, from 2% to 4% of the entering class, the number of Negro, Mexican-American and other...
...play ends with the suggestion that Martin, for leaving the country, may be responsible for his parents' concentration camp deaths. In a sense this is rather courageous material for a student playwright, but the net effect is to downgrade courage on the scale of virtues and to uplift subtlety, the quality most sorrowfully absent from Ten Years After the Party...
...Kodiak Island and on the Kenai Peninsula near Anchorage subsided 7 ft. or more; the Kenai mountains moved laterally as much as 5 ft. In a 480-mile by 127-mile area off the Alaska coast, the ocean floor rose as much as 50 ft., the greatest quake uplift ever recorded. Near Valdez, Alaska, a slice of land 4,000 ft. by 600 ft. fell into...
...economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry; as an M.P., he even introduced a somewhat peevish bill to compel company directors to divulge their incomes. But Shore's current prescription for economic uplift is hard to fault. Last week he was touting "the three Rs"-"Reorganizing industry, getting rid of weakness; Retraining, getting more skilled people; Re-equipment, getting better machinery...