Word: usually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, it's not the people involved, but The System that is at fault. It may be getting a bit tire-some to hear it, but boredom doesn't change matters any. The international monetary system has weathered--just barely--three major crises in the past year, and the prospects for fundamental reform seem scarcely brighter now than they were 12 months...
This carping aside Ruddigore must be counted in good measure a success. The songs are skillfully performed and the libretto is still recognizably one of Gilbert's funniest. Randall L. Darwell's set is, as usual, a pleasing contraption. Still, I urge you to leave the few remaining tickets at the box office. One or two empty seats at the back of the Agassiz might convince the Gilbert and Sullivan players to stop paying exclusive attention to the things they do well and consider some they...
...Russia. The U.S. has announced that on Dec. 21 it hopes to launch three astronauts aboard Apollo 8. According to the projected schedule, they will circle the moon ten times, starting on Christmas Eve, then return to the earth, where they will land 21 days later. Russian plans, as usual, are cloaked in secrecy. But many Western experts who have pieced together clues from Moscow rumors, recent Soviet space shots and past Soviet behavior are convinced that at least one, and perhaps as many as three cosmonauts will attempt to loop around the moon and return early in December. Although...
Defenseman Chris Gurry had his usual head-knocking night, but also managed to score once and set up two goals...
DEEP IN THE winter of 1965 the Beatles released an album titled Beatles for Sale that contained such songs as "I'm a Loser," "Baby's in Black," "Mr. Moonlight." They were nice songs all and strikingly performed as usual, but that album left one with the distinct feeling that the Beatles were treading water, that they were not uncovering any fresh musical resources, that they were not making any further additions to the existing stock of their achievement. Instead, that album represented a consolidation, a wrapping up of all the Beatles' loose ends in a last burst of splendid...