Word: without
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first U.S. papers to rush reporters to big out-of-town stories by chartered train. But as Hearst aged, the Examiner cooled into the journalistic pillar of his empire-a sober and respected daily that fed its subscribers nourishing doses of foreign, national and local news, frequently played without regard to Hearst prejudices...
Confident Wait. The opera is typical of everything the romantics fought when they rebelled against classicism: it is full of beautiful melodies but undramatic, full of abstract nobility but without real human beings. Nor was Alcestis improved by the Met's pseudo-Greek staging and top-heavy production featuring, among other banalities, steam puffing from Hades and two clumsy and amateurish ballets...
Mother Goose (Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Arch without being cute, this trio skips through the old rhymes like verbal jump ropes. In gleeful self-amazement, Actor Ritchard triple-tongues Peter Piper's pickled peppers ("I didn't break down, you see"). Hershy Kay's musical punctuation is pert and pertinent, unfailingly delights, never intrudes...
...faculty of arts and sciences, adds that not more than 10% of the faculty are ever absent for long. Bundy asks: "How are we going to strengthen our knowledge of far-off areas unless we have men wandering through darkest Africa? This outside activity enriches and invigorates the place. Without it Harvard would be a much duller place." At week's end Boston papers reported that Bundy himself, a Republican-for-Kennedy, was in line for a Washington job as Under Secretary of State...
...near. The end is near." Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become almost continuous and the lungs are starved for air. Antibiotics, Adrenalin, steroid hormones and oxygen had been given without effect. Finally, the University of Aberdeen's Dr. A. H. C. Sinclair-Gieben took over. His specialty: hypnosis...