Word: rigidities
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Some observers on the spot have gloomily concluded that the war to save strategic South Viet Nam from the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas cannot be won under President Ngo Dinh Diem, despite his promises to reform his rigid, often corrupt regime. The critics have no alternatives to offer, and the U.S. is still backing Diem full force, but there is a growing discussion of the case against...
...that his ideas strongly influence Nehru. They are both old-school, doctrinaire socialists of the 1930s variety, and both insist, against considerable evidence, that all the world is inevitably turning to socialism. They refuse to recognize that all the older socialist parties of the free world have abandoned the rigid formulas since World War II, and that the greatest progress has been achieved (in Germany, Western Europe, Japan) by relatively free enterprise. Of that progress Menon says scornfully, "The last word has not been said," suggesting that collapse is just around the corner. Both Nehru and Menon regard Indian private...
...experimental successor to Echo I, the 100-ft. radio-reflector that was launched on Aug. 12, 1960, and is still orbiting the earth. Echo A12 was not expected to orbit; its job was merely to expand in space and test a new kind of aluminized film that would stay rigid after the gas that blew up the balloon had escaped through meteor punctures...
...text, which Beriosova accomplished in a mellifluous voice with the aid of a microphone concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold wig and performed some extraordinary contortions, including a sort of sideways hopscotch interrupted by seconds of statuesque immobility on one foot...
...both Sonny and Trane have played. Without being able to pin it down, I think that Miles has added a totally new dimension, a new esthetic if you will, to improvising. Part of the novelty seems to reside in a cultivation of sound and of melody virtually unfettered by rigid adherence to chord changes, a sort of metaphysical depth. I recommend all of his Columbia LP's without hesitation, except the new two volume set recorded at the Black Hawk. Judging from recent in-person appearances, I think we can safely say that his next record will easily cut that...