Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent: "My father generated me in his 64th year. He was a bank director. Quite wealthy. His name was Andrew. My mother's name is Agnes. He was a handsome old man, white-haired. A Scotsman. I saw him only four or five times. I was taught to call him uncle, but I suppose I always knew he was my father...
...hear him in the finals, standees jammed the aisles in the Moscow Conservatory's deep balconies. Soldiers held back enthusiastic crowds in the street outside. To the hundreds of callers who asked for tickets, the Conservatory's box office had a standard reply: "Cliburn is playing tonight; call back tomorrow...
Stung by charges that U.S. schoolmen are too much concerned with group adjustment, too little with individual excellence, the National Association of Secondary-School Principals-some 16,500 members, and an arm of the many-limbed National Education Association-last week had issued a call to arms: "Now is the time for all members of the profession to rise up and make forceful protests against irresponsible and dishonest reporting on secondary education." Targets: TIME and LIFE. Weapon: "To question the continuation of subscriptions to the LIFE and TIME publications in your school...
...teacher. Mimic Grenfell's satiric range is narrow, her lunges make mere surface wounds, and half a Grenfell loaf is better than all of one. But her art, if thin, is pure, and it is an art-one that flowered most richly with the late Ruth Draper. To call Joyce Grenfell a superior Draper's assistant is not faint praise...
...Schubert posed enormous technical difficulties which the musicians met heroically. The opening horn call was given without a flaw, and the entire performance showed the results of meticulous practice and rehearsing. The opening of the finale, in particular, gave promise of brilliance and exuberance...