Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...antitank 3.5-in. bazookas, more than 100 new 75-mm. and 105-mm. recoilless rifles; about 100 self-propelled howitzers and cannons, plus another 100 Communist 120-mm. heavy mortars...
...Duce did not live to see the day when Romano, now 33, has won acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music as a "cross between California and Eastern hard bop," Romano specializes in "Italian blues," plays entirely by ear, is also a self-taught harmonica and guitar player. Last week he was fronting a combo of five pieces that was packing them in on the Italian nightclub circuit. Two fair blooms of Scandinavian beauty-Sweden's Princesses Birgitta and Désirée-were due in the U.S. this week...
...park and saw an analogy with tame schoolboys. Turning to Plato's Republic for guidance, Hahn designed a stern academy to "molest" the overly contented. His "seven laws": 1) give children opportunities for selfdiscovery; 2) make them meet with triumph and defeat; 3) give them the opportunity for self-effacement in a common cause; 4) provide periods of silence; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games important but not predominant; 7) free the sons of the rich and powerful from the enervating sense of privilege...
...expose themselves to criticism and improvement." For five years Greenburg has exposed himself on San Antonio's commercial station WOAI-TV, driven his viewers to read one "great book" a week and sit still for the torrent of gibes, jokes, sneers and slang that he delivers with cheerful self-esteem after arduous homework (he has read The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy 444 times...
...first draft to see what will go. A merchandising mentality ("Give them what they want") can sacrifice a song, a scene or a whole play to the whim of a weary tryout audience. But in experienced, honest hands, the road ordeal can also lead to the kind of relentless self-criticism in which Lerner, Loewe & Co. were caught up last week...