Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...every big city, public education is big business, big money, and big temptations. The twelve-man St. Louis board has long been controlled by ward politicians, who value the patronage of 1,500 nonteaching jobs in the school system. St. Louis is also cursed with an archaic administrative system. Instead of a single superintendent, four coequal executives run separate departments of instruction, building, auditing and finance. This leaves the classrooms to the teachers and the money to the politicians...
...great. But all the time I knew that I maybe couldn't do it again and maybe I did it only accidentally in the first place. It's uncomfortable to know that." Coach Owens is well satisfied to have a quarterback who plays a good game instead of talking one. "A lot of quarterbacks are fiery, holler guys, temperamental guys," says Owens. "Bob, though, leads by example...
...ability of most Western orchestras. The brasses are bright-almost too much so. Reported Critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor: "They are encouraged to play like cavalry on the line." But the Leningrad's most distinctive feature is the way in which it separates the various sections of the orchestra: instead of aiming for a thickly blended sound. Conductor Mravinsky emphasizes differences in coloration. The tempos, even in romantic composers, are brisk, martial-and not to every taste. Said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, after hearing the Leningrad play Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony: "I never want to hear the Fifth played again...
...Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. What he was trying to suggest, says Ashton, was "the ebb and flow of the sea: I aimed at an unbroken continuity of dance, which would remove the distinction between aria and recitative." As a result, Ondine offered few pyrotechnics, gained its effects instead through sinuous mass movements in which the undulation of arm and body suggested forests of sea plants stirring to unseen tides. The sense of submarine fantasy was reinforced by Stage Designer Lila de Nobili's fine scenery: a castle of mist and fruitfulness, shadowy crags and waterfalls, aqueous skies...
...incident, reneged on his part of the deal). The Overseas Press Club, by inviting Khrushchev to a question-and-answer session with its members, stirred up such a public controversy that four members resigned, though its intention was only to subject Khrushchev to normal press conference processes, instead of letting him dominate the questioners from a balcony...