Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...brothers about young Barrymore's beard-a male appurtenance made to order for some special Italian insults. After the brawlers were hauled off to Rome's Queen of Heaven clink, Barrymore, Gaby and Gaby's papa went there to spring the Palazzoli boys, so ardently set about liberating the captives that they soon were jugged themselves. Let off with an eight-month suspended sentence (Gaby and Signor Palazzoli were exonerated). Suitor Barrymore whisked Gaby off to be fitted for a wedding gown, announced that they will wed this week...
...contrast, The Sentence, by Giacomo Manzoni, 28, was a shrill, spare twelve-tone work that made fiendishly difficult demands on the singers and left the orchestra pit littered, in the words of one critic, with "the murdered bodies of the instruments." Set in China in the 1940s during the Japanese occupation, the opera told of a wife who betrays her husband to the enemy, is tried by the village council and dismissed with the existentialist in junction: "We neither condemn nor absolve you. You alone can decide whether you were right or wrong, and your soul throughout eternity will...
...driven by the conflicts created by modern America's emancipation of women to compete with her husband for dominance of the household. No match for his aggressive wife, the husband abdicates his familial responsibility, retires to the conflict-free comforts of the beer can, the television set and the evening newspaper. The common result: a "role exchange," from which the wife emerges a better man than her husband...
Entomologists have known since 1913 that an essence extracted from the abdomen tips of female gypsy moths would bring excited males from as far as half a mile away. For years they used this natural extract as bait in traps set out to locate colonies of the destructive moths, but the stuff was much too scarce for more than small-scale...
...SHIPPING INDUSTRY, the Pacific Maritime Association of employers agreed to pay $25 million into union coffers over the next five years to set up a fund to help compensate some 17,500 longshoremen for any work lost through automation. If machines displace enough of them to cut the work week below 35 hours, the fund will make up the difference. The fund will also finance early retirement for longshoremen as the needed work force shrinks. In return, Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union gave the employers a free hand to eliminate featherbedding and increase...