Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Late in the afternoon the Senate moved to table indefinitely and, in effect, to kill Governor Furcolo's bill to purchase the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Line, Earlier, the House had passed the controversial bill by a vote...
...Sonata Opus 110 began auspiciously. Mr. Fischer's playing fulfilled two of Beethoven's three descriptions; it was cantabile (the melody line was beautifully brought out), it was con amabilita, yet it fell short of the molto expressive playing called for. Later the lyric and tranquil sections of the piece were handled with more feeling and fidelity to the manuscript. But the more declamatory passages suffered from excessive percussiveness, which often resulted in the submerging of the melody. Indeed, the entire first part of Mr. Fischer's recital displayed his lack of the tremendous ability required to meet the frequent...
Americans have an added problem in defending their ideals to the rest of the world, Pettingill maintained, because of racial and cultural ties with Europe. New nations expect a positive stand against colonialism. Our political ties with their former colonial rulers blur the line between the United States and France. The African nations feel that we must add to our praises of freedom a strong concrete stand for Algerian independence. In their eyes, he declared, the United States must "take the blame for the actions of Europe if we do not take an anti-European stand...
From breakfast until dusk the Tocsin group will walk, carrying sign, wearing arm-bands of blue. At Harvard especially, such walking is odd. But Tocsin knows it is, and because their goal is good, the group is willing to walk that thin line...
...order to gain attention, do the odd. This is an old and, for intellectuals, a disturbing rule of politics. Even for good reasons, doing the odd means walking a thin line between ridicule and admiration...