Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary peace since the Second World War. We have never felt the sense of being threatened by external forces, mainly because of the United States nuclear defense umbrella. In this atmosphere a particular image or feeling about Communist China has grown up. Of course there has been a wide variety of opinion but, in the main, feeling about China has been good. To some Japanese, mostly Communists and socialists, China has been the potential champion of the progressive forces of the world. Furthermore, a sense of guilt for the criminal acts of the Japanese army towards the Chinese people during...
...excrement over the heads of Park's Cabinet ministers. But Park's tolerance does have its limits. His government maintains a midnight-to-4-a.m. curfew over most of the country, and has enacted a tough anti-Communist law that gives the security police and the courts wide leeway in dealing with real or imagined subversives. One young writer who published a blistering allegory of American influence in Korea, called The Dung Hill, is being tried under the law because his short story was picked up and reprinted in North Korea...
...that cut a swath across academic disciplines and focus on major social issues. One problem, however, is that there is rarely a niche for such freewheeling scholars in the modern, highly compartmentalized university. Berkeley Lecturer Ernest Becker, 42, who attracted overflow crowds into a 900-seat auditorium for a wide-ranging course embracing religion, anthropology and sociology, was reminded of that disturbing fact last month when Cal's anthropology department failed to rehire...
...wide application, said Dr. Kenneth Sell, organ transplantation will have to depend on organ banks, similar to the tissue bank he now maintains for the U.S. Navy at Bethesda, Md. So far, no one has devised a way to freeze a whole organ and get it to work after thawing it out. But another visionary suggestion is for a "living bank," in which organs from human cadavers might be implanted in baboons and stored in the animals until needed for transplants...
...solo cello before, and Piston displayed his own virtuosity by splashing forth a 23-minute polyphonic conversation organized as five variations on a theme. Brass and strings quarreled to the punctuation of tambourines and drums, then drifted in and out of harmony-while with his soaring silkiness, Rostropovich traced wide melodic angles ranging from sad loveliness to brittle dissonance. "I hope it is better than anything else I've written," said Piston. Then he set off to try to do even better on two new commissions. "You can't stop," he explained. "Music is a vice that takes...