Word: macedonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the truth, the principals were coolly going about their business last week. The tireless Tito visited Iraq, Syria and Jordan, while Minutic was singing La Traviata in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Minutic's father, when reached at his home in Dalmatia, denied the gossip about his daughter's romance. "The only thing they have in common," he said, "is their love for good music...
...range in character and style the group boasts of! It has performed from San Francisco to Moscow, is composed of Engineering to Slavic majors, has alumni in international opera companies and huge business corporations, and stores a repertoire of liturgical and secular music ranging geographically from Latvia to Macedonia. But the range stops somewhere. According to the Chorus' publicity brochure, the range stops when it comes to articulation and emotion. "All," it says," are articulate, and all share the deep emotions their music demands...
...Balkan hand, is better known as the right hand of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
When Lucas Samaras was a small boy in Macedonia, his father was the village furrier. "I spent a couple of summers in the business to find out what it was all about," he recalls. "Part of it was to stretch wet skins, fur down, on a board and pin the edges down. Later, when the skin is dry, you remove the pins and the skin is hard." In some ways this fragment of memory suggests the works of art Samaras was to make in adulthood: the pins, the textures, the extreme sensual contrasts (soft hair against the stink of tanning...
...fear, though, is still there. It has not gone from your life, but you have learned to live with it. The fear is there when you try to talk to the farmer in the little tobacco-growing village in Macedonia, he will not tell you that during the "referendum" on the so-called Constitution of 1968 (where the "yes" votes were 94 per cent), there were only "Yes" slips in his village at the polls. He will not tell you about his cousin in Salonika who was not allowed to return to the village because he was considered dangerous, even...