Word: rigidities
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...return home in triumph for a concert tour. Pianist Biret not only performed in public, she also had some of her own compositions played on the French national radio. Encouraged by these records, the Turkish government decided to expand its program, this year put 14 youngsters through a rigid set of tests and interviews to pick those qualified to go abroad. Last week three more Turkish prodigies were in Paris waiting 'o begin their formal studies. The three: ¶ Verda Erman, 12, daughter of a Wagons-Lits Cook inspector in Istanbul. Verda began playing the piano at six, showed...
...Crimson made its only scoring drive of the afternoon midway through the second period when Mike Shaw and captain Mac Hyde, on an assist from Jim Herscot, penetrated the rigid Tiger defense to register the team's only two tallies...
...development aid should be offered as easy-term loans rather than as grants, and should be financed out of a revolving fund that Congress would replenish as needed (estimated first-year need: about $500 million). Such a fund, argued Dulles, could "accomplish more with less expenditure" than the present rigid system of year-by-year, country-by-country appropriations...
...other hand he treated the Law with un-Essene casualness, he associated with such sinners as would have had an Essene at his lustrations for days, he urged people to love their enemies while the Essenes carefully nurtured their hatred for the children of darkness, and instead of their rigid asceticism he "came eating and drinking," letting those who would call him "gluttonous and a wine-bibber...
...contrasted emotional effects in the Domenico Scarlatti tradition. Simple and water-clear in the slower passages, the sonatas were riffled suddenly with far-flung arpeggios and trip-hammer repetitions, combining stately classic patterns with intricately shifting, popular Spanish rhythms. Pianist Marvin played them deftly, even if he sometimes seemed rigid with dedication. He plans to record the sonatas, hopes they will help put the Padre Soler's long-neglected name beside such 18th century giants as Mozart and Haydn, where he feels it belongs...