Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Except for this affirmation that the Soviet Union would go on spending for arms (at least a quarter of its total income this year), the order of the day was peace and friendship. Giant, red corn stalks and eight-foot ears of corn festooned one square, and the moon was gaily displayed as the latest Soviet plaything. Holiday marketers crowded the shops. Restaurants were jammed. And at the Kremlin reception, there was dancing for the first Nov. 7 since Lenin and Trotsky took over the place in 1917. After leading the grand march into Vladimir Hall, Premier Khrushchev begged...
...interest in the volunteer fire department in New Hope," said Old Fire Buff Birrell. "Volunteer firemen are a great thing in rural America." He also liked the autumn hunting. But "my house and nine-acre farm are in litigation now. They took it from me; nobody will get anything except the lawyers...
...named Cello that "especially likes Schumann." A student at Manhattan's Professional Children's School, Lorin takes his lessons with him when he is touring. Some day, he thinks, he would like to be a "wellrounded" musician on the order of Leonard Bernstein, whom he idolizes "except for his popular music-I can't appreciate that." Meantime, the problem in the Hollander family is to find a house with an extra room: father and son find they cannot practice anywhere within earshot of one another...
...scene is a shabby Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Mineola, L.I., and the tenth man is a young lawyer with no faith in religion, or even in life itself, who has been brought in off the street to make a quorum for morning prayers. Except for an aged rabbi, even the elderly Jews who show up largely lack faith; they come out of habit or boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums...
...denomination: the Unitarian Universalist Association. Meeting separately and simultaneously in Syracuse, N.Y., representatives of the American Unitarian Association (membership: 108,396) and the Universalist Church of America (membership: 68,949) agreed last week to unite. But though neither of the creedless sects officially accepts the divinity of Jesus (except as all men participate in divinity), the Man from Nazareth managed to give them a hard time...