Word: cante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Safran was stirring his paint and laboring over his canvas, Associate Editor Gilbert Cant and Researcher Jean Bergerud, as well as 17 TIME correspondents around the U.S., were visiting laboratories and quizzing virologists to put together the cover story. Touring a virus and vaccine laboratory, Medicine Writer Cant donated five milliliters of blood for testing, later found that he was low on polio antibody, was persuaded to take a swig of oral polio vaccine. After Writer Cant and Senior Editor William Forbis had put the final touches on the cover story about Virologist John Enders* and medicine...
...exception was Peter Doyle, a veteran who worked as a conductor on the Washington-Georgetown City Railroad. For all his fond words to his "own loving boys" and his pathetic promise to make Pete "a correct speller & real handsome writer," he would get in return something like this: "i cant rite so good as the car is in motion...
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's best-selling novel about Washington makes an engrossing political melodrama. While somewhat superficial and oversimplified, at least it treats the theatrically much neglected subject of power without cant...
Advise and Consent. Allen Drury's bestselling novel about Washington makes an engrossing political melodrama. While somewhat superficial and oversimplified, at least it treats the theatrically much-neglected subject of power without cant...
...another important career-he was a gadfly committed to "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land." His coat of arms might have been emblazoned with his personal credo: "Improve the standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" Beecham was sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially because he approached his music with a relaxed urbanity foreign to such great, tyrannical contemporaries as Toscanini or Reiner. Despite the ferocity of his public utterances, he handled his orchestras with...