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...prefer a turkey or a duck?" In any event, Bloch was not ready to let the quartet stand alone as the only testament of his 72nd year. After finishing the quartet (in April), he wrote Concerto Grosso No. 2 for Strings and String Quartet (August) a Sinfonia Breve (December) and a brief In Memoriam (also December). At week's end, with an energy that Churchill might applaud, he was off to Rome to hear a revival of his 1910 opera, Macbeth...
...Bring your own gun for duck hunting, shrimp fishing, crabbing, trolling for King Salmon, jigging for halibut, skiing, hiking, and walking," Rosemary Reilly-Baughm, the school's admissions director, said...
...Finger on the Trigger. The rest of the story is Copilot Felix Gaston's: "I thought to myself: I am a dead duck, a goner. Dear Lord, can't I even see my unborn child? I tried everything. I said I had eaten no breakfast and was dizzy. I pretended illness and asked for water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave...
...device: they strapped Willy's parachute on his own back, took him 7,000 ft. up in a fighter plane and pitched him over the side. At first Willy shot up instead of down, but then his parachute rotors deposited Willy on the ground like a duck feather on the bedroom carpet...
Waste of Time & Money. These homely activities made sense to the France that bred Antoine Pinay-not the American tourist's France of roasted chestnuts and rhinestoned poodles on the Champs-Ely-sées, "Allo darleeng" in the Place Pigalle, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid...