Word: uralic
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...unusual move, the President also picked a top-level assistant for Taylor: he gave the rarely used title of deputy ambassador to U. (for Ural) Alexis Johnson, 55, who had been serving as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the State Department's fourth highest post...
...Elizabeth Bishop's poem about Ezra Pound in St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the mentally ill, which becomes a chilling Baedeker of bedlam. Rorem has jettisoned tonality, but his rhythms are generally as even as pulse beats, and he lets voices rise and flow within their nat ural limits...
...Europe's tariff barriers fall under the impetus of the Common Market, nat ural barriers are also crumbling. Some where under Mont Blanc next fall, French and Italian engineers will com plete the world's longest (7¼ miles) vehicular tunnel, which will cut 194 miles from the 581-mile auto journey from Paris to Milan. Plans are also afoot for a joint Anglo-French tunnel under the English Channel. Last week the tunnel trend continued as France and Spain announced plans to pierce the Pyrenees. Just under two miles long, the proposed tunnel (see map) will...
Ever since Nureev defected while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet (TIME, June 23, 1961) and began to be hailed there as a major star in his performances with the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, balletomanes have dreamed of a Nureev-Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family, had danced with the Kirov company for ten years at the time of his defection. Ballet fans who have watched him in Paris call him the outstanding male dancer in the West-and probably in the world-and compare him favorably with Nijinsky. A gifted soloist, he is also known...
...whomp things up a bit. Yet he resists temptation, and except for a few scenes in which priests of Chemosh, played by weight lifters in green lingerie, clomp about to oboe music, the picture is commendably unepic. The actors strike a reasonable compromise between self-conscious reverence and nat ural behavior, and the speeches they are given are free from the archaic flourishes that no one since the time of King James has been able to write with conviction...