Word: barracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bronze statue to his memory. Still looking sprightly despite her 70 years, Mrs. MacArthur took a widow's pleasure in traveling up to the Point for the dedication of the statue, as well as a new, six-story dormitory wing that will be known as MacArthur Barrack...
...some respects, the twelve men confined to a New Orleans hotel last week can expect no better treatment than Army recruits. For weeks they will live barrack-style, four to a room, at the Rountowner Motor Inn. A deputy sheriff will guard them even when they sleep. Only in emergencies will they be allowed to talk by phone with their wives-and then only after a sheriff contacts Judge Edward Haggerty for his permission. For their trouble, the jurors, who will eventually decide whether Businessman Clay Shaw conspired to kill President John F. Kennedy, will not be paid a cent...
...cello and violin, and the six Brandenburg Concertos. This period is usually labeled Bach's secular phase, though he was not fussy about the distinction between sacred and secular. Bach often borrowed from his secular music for sacred occasions, just as Martin Luther had used love songs and barrack ballads for some of his chorales. He even turned out such mundane pieces as a song on the joys of pipe smoking or a cantata about the glories of coffee. But the attitude behind all of his music was, as he noted in his manuscripts, "Deo soli gloria...
...when leaders of the Northern countercoup settled on him as head of state. Gowon was, at that point, the North's way of appeasing the South: besides practicing Christianity, he belonged to one of the smallest Northern tribes. Trained at Britain's Sandhurst military school, Gowon once shared barrack quarters with Ojukwu, but has neither his intellect nor his strong interest in politics?a fact that probably does not displease his Northern sponsors. He is an affable, unassuming leader who has shown considerable skill in keeping Nigeria united during a civil war that he himself once predicted would be nothing...
...with extinction in China. The party ideological journal Kommunist declared that Mao's policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...