Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the oldie-but-goodie Emblem came Darius Milhaud's unabashedly chauvinistic Suite Francaise. Written in 1945, the piece celebrates the five provinces where American and Allied troops, together with the French underground, "fought together for the liberation of my country." Each section employs folk tunes supposedly native to a particular province of France. Milhaud intended the suite to appeal to, and be playable by, high school bands across the country, and so the music is consciously straighforward and ingratiating. The Band gave it a properly spirited performance...
...will be required to complete his oral examination by the end of his second year, and he will not be permitted to teach until his third year. The Graduate Prize Fellow may teach for at most two years, while some graduate students at Harvard feel compelled to be section men for as long as five years...
...unite the party. He already has a strong hold on the South-and thanks to a bonus rule adopted at the 1964 G.O.P. Convention, giving extra delegates to states that went for Goldwater or elected a Republican Governor or Senator, the South will have more votes than any other section at the convention (356 v. 355 for the East, 352 for the Midwest, 262 for the West, eight for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). Nixon could well enter the convention with 450 of the 667 votes needed for nomination. In addition, he has scores of lOUs from...
...official telegrams to other heads of state. He may still be permitted to go to his office and await dispatches and memos that never come. He may be under some form of detention, either imprisonment or, more likely, house arrest in his villa in Peking's Fragrant Hill section...
Some of the more moderate opponents of the war have withheld support for tomorrow's marches because they don't think the speakers represent a true cross-section of anti-war opinion. Their point may be valid, but their logic is not. Complete agreement among the participants in such a march is impossible. Infighting can only discourage moderate participation, and encourage charges of domination by extremists...