Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although an early admirer of Wagner ("Richie Wagner did get away occasionally from doh, me, so," he wrote, "which was more than some others did"), Ives realized that he himself could not express what he wanted to say within the romantic tradition. Long before Schoenberg, Stravinsky and other modernists, he experimented with ragtime rhythms and dissonance. A practical man, he also recognized that there was no public for that kind of music, and he was far too inde pendent to try to change his style. Some time before he married his wife, Harmony, he decided that rather than "starve...
...those for whom it is a living language have increased their ardor. The Junior Classical League, which had 11,000 members ten years ago, now has 74,634, and chapters in 46 states. Some 475,000 high school students will take Latin this year, and classicists say that the number would double if there were enough teachers to go around...
...spree was record-breaking enough to move even Olympic Coach Larry Snyder to laconic optimism when he contemplated the coming battle in Rome. Said he: "I'd say we were ready...
...review "seemingly convinced" his publisher that they had a real property on their hands. Launched as a columnist, Walker wrote with an obvious ban vivant zest that to Daily News readers made substance unnecessary. "I've been accused of being a gourmet," Walker boasted. "Nuts, all I can say is that I have tried everything put before me and never suffered any violent ill effects." A bachelor, he liked ballroom dancing and escaped the heavy bores on his rounds by fleeing to the dance floor. "When you're a columnist," he said in the epilogue...
Professor Martin does not say how his thesis would apply in the cases of France's President Charles de Gaulle and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both of whom are notably devout Christians, and notably not weak leaders. The editors of Christian Century felt bound to offer a rebuttal of their own contributor. "We sympathize with (Martin's respect for competence in politics," they wrote, "but cannot accept his implication that vital faith necessarily constitutes an insuperable obstacle to such competence." The editors insist that though Lincoln was not a churchgoer, he was a devout Christian...