Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...that exploded in the ear as strangely as a satellite's call; and finally the less flamboyant, middle-ground Riegger in the serene, elegant textures of Canon on a Ground Bass by Henry Purcell (1951). Not included was the work for which Riegger is perhaps best known-his Third Symphony (1947), which won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award in the season of its première. In that fine work Riegger is at his abrasive best, putting night-wailing strings against the muscularly marching brasses in an effect that is taut, menacing and powerfully moving...
...Daniel Brunner, Vienna-born and educated, began an intensive study in 1955 of second-and third-generation descendants of a handful of Yemenite Jews who had reached Palestine in a trickle from 1882 on. Genetically the same as the newcomers, these settlers had an incidence of coronary artery disease and heart attacks close to that of the Ashkenazim...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Horace Clement Hugh Robertson, 65, Australian combat veteran of both world wars; after a heart operation; in Melbourne. As British Commonwealth occupation commander in Japan from 1946 to 1951, Robertson upset American plans for a quiet observance of the third anniversary of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima, bluntly told Hiroshima's citizens: "This disaster was your own fault . . . The punishment given to Hiroshima was only part of the retribution of the Japanese people as a whole...
Died. Amanullah Khan, 68, King of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, who led his country into the Third Afghan War in 1919, won independence from Great Britain, but ran into so much resistance when he tried to westernize Afghanistan that he was forced to abdicate; after a long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...liquor cabinet hidden behind a fake bookshelf (Loudon's drink: Scotch and soda). He is an excellent dancer, likes to golf (in the 90s), spent a week last winter skiing in Switzerland with his wife and two of his sons, Fred, 22, and George, 17. Loudon's third son, John 24, has followed his father into Shell. (His oldest son was killed in an auto accident in Holland...