Word: loftier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the French-educated elite, including civil servants and many intellectuals, criticize the U.S. from a somewhat loftier level. They accuse the Americans of practicing a kind of cultural defoliation in Viet Nam. "We consider your country too young, and there is not much we can learn from you, save for what we call modern development," says one intellectual. "We tend to equate you with machines for whom there is no deep thinking." Says another: "Americans have no culture, unless you call beer and big bosoms culture." At Saigon's Cercle Sportif and around upper-middle-class dining...
...positions provide Moscow with daily intelligence on Egyptian military movements and preparedness-which Russia disastrously miscalculated in 1967. Egyptian officers complain that their Russian advisers are aloof and overbearing, work them too hard, and do not teach enough mobile warfare. According to the official slogan, Egyptian-Soviet friendship is "loftier than the Aswan Dam and more solid than the Pyramids." In fact, the relationship is pragmatic rather than cordial. Even during construction at Aswan where 3,000 Soviet engineers lived and worked shoulder to shoulder with Egyptians, few friendships developed. In Cairo today, thousands of Russians live clannishly in their...
Shankar's display of musical hypnotism clearly dramatized the essential difference between Western and Indian music. Much of Western music is an ex pressive artistic message delivered-as if in a package-directly to the listener. Indian music attempts to induce a loftier, more profound emotional and spiritual state in the listener through a steady, stroboscopic kind of rhythmic and melodic bedazzlement. At the height of a raga, says Shankar, "it is utter joy, uninhibited, that an artist experiences. The raga, the musician, the listeners, all become one." That is something that India's Ravi Shankar...
...that Huntington Hartford, 56, can do to tear himself away from the phone these days. On one line, he has been calling several of the nation's loftier cultural institutions, trying to get them to accept as a gift his $5,000,000 Gallery of Modern Arton Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The star-crossed A. & P. heir first sought to benefact Columbia and Fordham universities, which hastened to decline when they got a load of the museum's $3,800,000 mortgage and $500,000 yearly upkeep; now he hopes that some philanthropic soul like Uncle...
...using." That sounded reasonable, except that Carson had never complained before about the chopped-up, ad-ridden Tonight repeats that NBC runs every Sunday night of the year. At that point, Carson, who was lolling out the strike on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, came up with another and loftier justification of his stand. "I was required to join AFTRA in order to work for the network," he said. "I know of no business except the broadcasting industry in which a performer becomes a scab to himself and his union because of films and videotape...