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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miniature Macy's. Most market women started out as simple farm wives tramping into town to sell their homegrown produce. Those with a taste for trade soon bought out other peasants and moved into business full time-offering everything from mangoes to a bewildering array of cosmetics, jewelry, shoes, shirts and shawls, plus whisky from Scotland, cutlery from Germany and nylons from the U.S. From the Caribbean and Central America down through the Andes to Chile, they serve as supermarket, liquor store and miniature Macy's all rolled into one. In Guatemala City, market women and their kids...
...wake of the Kremlin's retreat in the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets "have renounced the policy of high risks in dealing with the West." U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while warning that the Communists could create new dangers with unpredictable and perilous speed, hinted that the array of problems facing Russia may make it far easier for the West to reach agreements with the Reds. The problems include the deeply significant rift with Red China, the slackening of revolutionary ardor at home, and the Soviet Union's growing domestic economic troubles...
Shostakovich explores every twist in the tale with a lively assortment of musical styles, and the music sustains the entire drama. The heroine, who despite her crimes is meant to be "a ray of light in the kingdom of darkness," is described in lyrical and eloquent themes, while an array of jarring, brassy polkas, gallops and mazurkas evoke the absurdity that surrounds her. In the revision, Shostakovich has tightened and refined both music and libretto, producing a work more polished and subdued -and considerably more singable...
...matches last year. Howe had also beaten Niederhoffer several times in spring tennis matches. But this time the Crimson ace turned the tables, breezing to a 15-3, 15-6, 12-15, 15-7 win. Howe's backhand broke down time and again under steady pressure from Niederhoffer's array of touch shots...
...gentlemen in question-an Italian, a Frenchman, a Yugoslav, a Greek -are the generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...