Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eastern soccer's game of the year, the Crimson varsity will face Yale's powerful Bulldogs this afternoon at 2 p.m. in New Haven. The Elis and the Crimson will be in near-perfect condition for the showdown both squads have been pointing towards since late September...
...Perfect Getaway. In Milwaukee, after José Ortega was summoned to federal court for an income tax hearing, an attorney offered reasons for Ortega's nonappearance: his client was deported to Mexico for illegal entry last year, is now in Guadalajara, awaiting trial for murder...
Still, if the casting of the two main roles was far from perfect and the performance in the pit highly unsatisfactory, the general effect did not lack tension and emotional impact. Credit this to the generally competent singing in both major and minor roles (in fact, the shepherdess, Taeko Fujii, was perhaps the most impressive vocalist of all), a well-prepared chorus, and Miss Caldwell's inventive and skillful staging of the main scenes...
...agitation about Richter-Haaser stemmed from an old argument: Should a pianist try for note-perfect accuracy, as most U.S. pianists do, or should he try, in Artur Rubinstein's phrase, to "pull the listener in by the hair," letting the notes fall where they may? (Wisecracking Virtuoso Rubinstein boasted after one performance that he could play an entire new recital with the notes that had fallen under the piano.) Pianist Richter-Haaser belongs to the hair-pulling, note-dropping school, in the spectacular romantic tradition. His performance last week-Beethoven's "Appassionato," Sonata, Schumann's Fantasy...
...each basic reading appears a series of simple questions which can be answered by reference to the reading itself. During the class period, the section leader will fire these questions at students and hopefully will receive an answer immediately in perfect German. "I definitely do not want my students to translate the question into English, formulate an answer, and then translate this back into German; I want them to think directly in German," Stein states. Although it is yet too early to evaluate the success of this limited oral-aural approach in reading courses, the new method certainly represents...