Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gear with the message that there had been a coup and that key officers had been arrested. Riot police carrying wicker shields and tear gas began to cruise around the city, on guard for demonstrations; there were none. The confusion was compounded when a high-ranking government official leaked word that a coup attempt had been thwarted. Other officials denied there had been such an attempt, and President Thieu felt it necessary to go on nationwide radio and television to announce that there had been neither coup nor arrests. The alert was a routine precaution against Communist moves, he said...
...first, he explored opera, since it seemed to him that it offered the best form for social comment. Now he has no use for it. "As a musico-dramatic form, opera is completely useless," he says. In Sinfonia, Berio suggests a new kind of dramaturgy encompassing music, drama, word sounds and, eventually, lighting and stage effects. Other composers have attempted the same thing, but along the way they have lost the sound and the sense of music. In Berio's intensely affecting work, the music is paramount-and everything in it is a powerful declaration of musical achievement...
Superlative was the word for the facilities. Judged by their past performances and present eagerness, the athletes seem sure to match them...
...keep France French, Charles de Gaulle has assumed the right to pass the final word on certain business deals. He must, for example, approve any arrangement that would deliver more than 20% of a French company into foreign hands. Last week De Gaulle used his veto to upset a planned union of France's troubled Citroen auto firm with...
...such comic relief is overwhelmed by the savage purity of Kosinski's vision -that of a man stripped of all humane conventions and in complete control of his impulses and appetites. In fact, the protagonist's obsession with control becomes indistinguishable from the book itself. Every word is weighted to produce the precise tension that each episode calls for. The effect is hypnotic but short-lived. For unlike The Painted Bird, this novel lacks the grounding situation, the structure and the connective tissue that could have made it more than a rather abstract expression of a pathological state...