Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...heard any of my new records?" That well-seasoned musical fable has grated on the ears of accompanists for years. Fretting under a cloak of near anonymity, they have traditionally been regarded by the public as the perpetual subordinates of the musical world. Singers and other soloists of course know better, and so last week did the audiences flocking to hear Soprano Victoria de Los Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist...
...even these status signs are not likely to turn the accompanist into a box-office draw. Like it or not, admits Accompanist Craxton, "The greatest moment of an accompanist must always be when the soloist turns to him and says: 'You were wonderful tonight. I didn't know you were there...
Under the old system, importers could bring in certain amounts of woolens under a quota and pay a tariff based on 25% of value. After the quota was filled, the tariff jumped to 45%. The result was that the U.S. manufacturers often did not know whether the woolens they had ordered would be imported under the lower or higher tariff. The new system is simpler. The Government will set no quotas, but the tariff will be higher. Importers will pay a flat rate of 37½ per lb., plus 38% of value on woolens valued at more than...
Fabrizio obviously does not know that Clara is mentally deficient, but there is no doubting his or his family's seriousness. Mrs. Johnson's dilemma is simple but terrible. Shall she explain and take her daughter away from disturbing Florence, or shall she give her daughter the chance at a normal woman's life that she will never get back home? In one moving moment she realizes that Clara, "whether she could do long division or not, was a woman...
...hick. He came from a Staffordshire farm family, though his father relished playing the Victorian county squire. Hulme affected to despise the Establishment though he adopted its manner. Once, when a policeman objected to his making water in a Soho Square gutter, Hulme haughtily asked: "Do you know you are addressing a member of the middle classes?" The bobby apologized...