Word: casting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When the army takes the voters to the polls in military trucks, marks those who have cast their vote with a stamp of ink, and even denies food to those who do not vote at the carefully controlled elections, there can certainly be no pretense of a free election, he declared...
...that may well lead to the end of the good life that you and I have known in this country." Added Progressive Party Leader Jan Steytler: "This republic will make us an outcast people." Before the polls opened on election morning, long rows of anxious voters stood impatiently to cast their ballots. At first the overwhelmingly anti-government vote from the big cities indicated that the republic might be defeated. But the tide turned in favor of Verwoerd when the platteland returns began arriving. By nightfall, the Nats had a 74,000 majority, giving them 52% of the votes-even...
...fantasies are usually technically possible. But for them, the question of what to build has taken precedence over problems of how to build. Says Arthur Drexler, director of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art: "Social usage determines what is visionary and what is not. Visionary projects cast their shadows over into the real world of experience, expense and frustration. If we could learn what they have to teach, we might exchange irrelevant rationalizations for more useful critical standards. Vision and reality might then coincide...
...corrida has had its effect on the nation's literature. The result is that Spain's fictional heroines suffer at least as much wear and tear as her fighting bulls. When the reader meets pretty, pregnant, unmarried Eulalia trudging toward the Catalan fishing village that cast her out months before, the outcome of Author Salisachs' novel is not hard to predict. Sure enough, 300 pages later the tarnished maiden lies dead from loss of blood in a seaside cave, her squalling love child beside her. The man she adored vainly (he of high degree...
...three-hour performance, an open stage was used, with only one intermission. The 32-person cast took six curtain calls--although there was no curtain--at the conclusion of the play...