Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modestly backed by the British Museum of Natural History ($140) and New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation ($250). With the help of two hired laborers, they found buckets of flint chips, tools and animal bones. Then Lea Wymer found something odd in the same deep stratum: a bit of black stuff the size of her fingernail which looked like rock but felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority on Swanscombe...
...good soil for farming, and too, there are some rocky hills which must be leveled to make more land for farming. My father and his father before him and back into time have farmed the land, and also--with their hands--leveled the hills, so that each has a bit more than his father...
...stylistic consistency, plus the special difficulties involved in writing a slow movement (which often trips up even the best-established composers). Frederic Rzewski '58's Sonata for Violin and Piano was most successful in the fast outer movements. The first movement, in a modified sonata-form with a bit too much stop-and-go, adopted a Bartokian brutality and approach to dissonance; and the finale dared to end softly with an effective pizzicato and staccato section. Rzewski failed to realize, however, that the bottom range of the violin is easily covered up by too heavy a piano accompaniment...
...sweet and powerful, and she has it under reliable, effortless command. (She can cover almost an additional two octaves, but with little musical value.) In her tenor range she can sound either like a contralto or a real male tenor. Some critics find Jenny's voice a bit dry, but this can be overcome, she believes, before she makes her professional debut. She does not plan to make it for about two years. Until then, she will continue to study with the man whose bold beliefs about the human voice she may be helping to prove...
...rapid succession, there were 1) a waltz in which boys lugged girls onstage like grainsacks, let them dance a bit, then lugged them off again; 2) a dizzy rain scene, with umbrellas flapping open and shut; 3) the "Minute" Waltz, timed by a football second hand and ending precisely at 60 seconds. Best spoof of all was the "mistake" dance: one girl or another always managed to have arms up when the rest had them down or to be facing the audience when the rest were faced about, etc.-old stuff, but done with a deadpan zip that...