Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 450 symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos and other works; of an apparent heart attack; in Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout World War II he taught at Mills...
Higher-Ups. Embarrassed prosecutors blame Hart's leniency for most of the uproar which has prompted more and more questions about all Watergate plea bargains. The practice itself is little admired but long established in the U.S. judicial system, where it is used mainly to reduce the number of trials on already crowded court dockets. But this consideration is scarcely relevant to Watergate; federal prosecutors defend their use of bargained pleas on other grounds. For one thing, the bargains have meant sure, final convictions in many cases that might have been shaky in court. Also, the lesser Watergate cases...
...time has long passed when the world can continue its apathy toward the terrorist actions of Arab groups against civilians [May 27]. The uproar after the Olympics quickly waned, along with that after the incidents of Lod Airport and Qiryat Shemona. The guerrillas have gone past killing civilian adults. Now they must show their extreme "bravery" by slaying innocent children. If the murderers of children are to be made heroes by a country, then we must treat that country like the plague, and shun...
Despite the uproar, Prime Minister Gandhi clearly believes that the beneficial military and political fallout from the test justified its priority and expense. India's new nuclear role will probably establish the country as an increasingly potent political force on the Asian subcontinent and among the Third World nations. Ever since China exploded its own bomb in 1964, India has felt the need to attain nuclear status both to remain competitive with Peking and to enhance its security from outside attack. That status will become markedly real if India decides to perfect its ongoing rocketry program by constructing...
...uproar that greeted these plans caused final drafts of the construction to limit the structure to what is now a parking lot for the Peter Bent Brigham, at the corner of Francis and Binney Streets in Boston...