Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles consider the very real right of the unborn child to life. One cannot ignore the problems, both mental and physical, that occur with the expectation of a child begotten by a rapist or a baby that will be deformed. Nor can the existence of so many harmful amateur abortions be dismissed. But to take away the rights of the unborn child is too drastic a solution. Whatever views people hold in this matter, they ought to fully consider where this new course of liberalization leads and how it will affect their view of human life, a value that Americans...
...Only a cut above the amateur" was British Critic Ernest Newman's scornful evaluation of Czech Composer Leoš Janáček in a 1924 review of the opera Jenufa. "Atrocious drama and wretched theater," complained a New York Times critic after a 1931 performance of From the House of the Dead. Through years of such disasters,Janáček (pronounced Ya-na-chek) remained a proud, angry man who longed desperately for recognition and stubbornly believed that his peculiar brand of musicmaking would be vindicated. Now, four decades after his death, the often maligned composer...
...Terrell relies on a sound, aggressive ground stroke," Barnaby said "He has developed a lot of game strategy and recently he has been concentrating on adding a front wall finesse to his attack." The result is that Terrell is presently ranked as the third best amateur player in the nation...
DOWNHILL RACER. Skiing has never before been filmed with quite the electricity that illumines this otherwise routine tale of an amateur athlete (Robert Redford) on the make...
...survival-rather splendid survival at that. Living with his mistress, Madame du Châtelet, in the château of Cirey, Voltaire powdered and dressed as if in Paris. She and Voltaire dined in elegance "with lots of silver," gave glittering balls, and inveigled house guests into amateur theatricals. Cirey had its own theater; and between noon and 7 o'clock the next morning, 21 skits and 21 operas were presented...