Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The Beethoven year may have worn out some performers, but not the welcome of the music itself. The LPs have come along by the truckload. The books have been fewer, but choice-notably Thayer's century-old pioneering biography (newly reissued in a one-volume paperback; Princeton, $6.95) and...
The result of all that labor proves that Beethoven did not just "free music"-as his romantic biographers put it-but the creative ego and id of every composer who followed. Prior to Beethoven, music in general never moved too far from the everyday interests of its patrons, be they...
I have no doubt my daily prayers for strength and guidance to be calm, understanding and patient in this case and to do that which is fair and just in the sight of our heavenly Father have been answered.
Thus assured of the wisdom of his action, Judge Boldt last week dealt with the "Seattle Seven"-the young protesters accused of conspiring to damage a federal courthouse in Seattle last winter. After declaring a mistrial in the Tacoma proceedings, Judge Boldt summarily convicted the seven of contempt, and ordered...
But when six of the defendants* refused to enter the courtroom because their partisans had been denied entry to the courthouse lobby, Tigar and the other defense lawyers stood by helplessly. Judge Boldt demanded that the defendants enter. When they balked, he declared a mistrial and cited them for "one...