Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most recent large-scale work, a Requiem for double chorus, which will be performed tonight in Sanders by the Glee Club and Choral Society, was composed in isolation. "I had a sabbatical in 1957-8 and my friends assumed that I had left town for the winter. Really, I had just stayed at home on Brattle Street working long hours in my studio there. When I appeared at school next fall, some colleagues asked me how I had enjoyed my trip. The solitude that I attained in that year was invaluable. After two months of undisturbed labor, I found that...
Drawing breath between efforts at his winter training tanks located in a Bow St. cellar, 'Poon captain Eddie Tariov exclaimed, "Aim high! It is better to fall short while reaching for a star...
Torture & Triumph. The seven Astronauts of Project Mercury were winnowed out by the most searching tests man could devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
...they had put down the three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper on the walls. The corpses of hundreds of slain Lhasans lay in the streets and parks of the city, from the gutted medical college...
...Votes Apiece. The Bay Street boys run the politics as well as the boom. But even in the sparsely populated (116,530) Bahamas, the dreams that drove colonials to greater measures of self-government elsewhere in the old British Empire are stirring. Last year, at the beginning of the winter season, Nassau's taxi drivers, bus boys, power-plant workers and construction workers walked out on strike (TIME, Jan. 27, 1958). Members of the Progressive Liberal Party, they struck mostly for fairer polling laws, and they won a few concessions; e.g., men of property, who formerly could vote...