Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homecoming. This week, as the Vietnamese greet the Year of the Ram under cover of the four-day truce agreed to by both sides, some 100,000 Viet Cong are expected to take leave of their units and slip back to their native villages and families for a brief reunion...
...member of the World Council of Churches; in recent years Ethiopian theologians have held a series of dialogues with Orthodox prelates on the question of possible reunion. The more promising young priests are now being sent to Germany and Greece for graduate study-and already the church is being plagued by a few fiery clerics, who, Luther-like, are demanding radical reform. Nonetheless, educated Ethiopians expect that real progress will be slow in coming. Despite its shortcomings, the church remains serene in its conviction that it possesses the true apostolic faith...
...Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra; the suave calm of Met General Manager Rudolf Bing; the comic pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even caught more than it meant to. During one rehearsal, Director Franco Zeffirelli unexpectedly waved onstage 226 extras, a gesture that cost Bell...
...radical concept as far as a lot of people are concerned, but it is old stuff to race horses. The field for last week's $150,000 Washington D.C. International at Laurel Race Course included ten horses from seven different countries, and it seemed more like a family reunion than a meeting of strangers...
Last week both parties held separate congresses to ratify the reunion, and this week the single party, with the jaw-cracking label "P.S.I.-P.S.D.I. Unified," will meet in the Sports Palace outside Rome to draw up a constitution. Representing some 6,000,000 voters, the new party will start life with 95 Deputies and 46 Senators-still far behind the Christian Democrats (260 Deputies, 134 Senators) and the Communists (166 Deputies, 83 Senators). Nenni, who will take over as the new party president, feels the simple fact of socialist unity will help with policies that appeal more and more...