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...young Republican urged his audiences to take their destiny out of the hands of the arrogant Democratic machine that had fed on the city for 20 years. In synagogues and soda fountains, from the scabrous tenements of Harlem to the polluted beaches of Sheepshead Bay, between blintzes and pizza, chop suey, knishes, pretzels and foot-longs, he remonstrated...
...learned to control the sharp burin as it plowed ornamental-and indelible-lines across the rich metal. At 15, he got his father's permission to study art, and he turned his point to image making. Even before his death in 1528, Dürer's chop M., a reminder of his goldsmith's training, was known across Europe. To show the full range of his accomplishment, 150 drawings by him and his contemporaries have been assembled from the State Museum in Berlin by the Smithsonian Institution.* They show that Dürer almost singlehanded brought...
...Kiernan withdraws aid, Collins would be forced to put the screws on the School Committee to comply with the law. Collins's first economy as mayor was to chop a couple of million off the school budget, and he needs every cant he can get. Furthermore, he can't risk siding with Mrs. Hicks on the racial issue if he wants to win a statewide election...
...exuberance and a kind of healthy sentimentality. The tall, imposing Kondrashin, who does not use a baton, in the belief that the face can convey more than the arms, smiled and scowled like a silent-movie hero, occasionally punctuated climaxes with gestures as sudden and menacing as a karate chop. Compared with Russia's other two major orchestras, both of which have previously toured the U.S., the Moscow Philharmonic proved itself superior to the heavily romantic Moscow State Orchestra but lacking the versatility and polish of the Leningrad Philharmonic...
...Cong held 65% of South Viet Nam's land and 55% of its people in thrall. Saigon's armies were bone weary and bleeding from defections. As the momentum of their monsoon offensive gathered, the Communists seemed about to cut the nation in half with a vicious chop across the Central Highlands. The enemy was ready to move in for the kill, and South Viet Nam was near collapse...