Word: closings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composer-historian offers an unexampled picture of some 55 years of Soviet musical life. His tender and witty evocation of his teacher Alexander Glazunov constitutes one of the most affecting portraits of a composer in the literature of music. Shostakovich muses over the fates of his close friends, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold, the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and others more obscure: composers, an organist, a musicologist. All died in the Gulag. "When I started going over the life stories of my friends and acquaintances," he told Volkov, "all I saw was corpses, mountains of corpses...
Scientific news is loaded with even more forbidding challenges. Voyager I, it seems, found a hot spot in the vicinity of Jupiter that is 300 million to 400 million degrees centigrade. Later, Voyager II, going almost 45,000 m.p.h., came as close as 404,000 miles to Jupiter's cloud tops on its way to Uranus-some 1.6 billion miles out there. Science now has an electron microscope that can magnify 20 million times and so can photograph a particle with a diameter of about 4 billionths of an inch. Computers can do 80 million calculations a second...
There were quarterback sacks and fumbles on crucial plays, penalties to stall Harvard drives, and a big roughing the kicker penalty to pull the Tigers out of a hole at their own eight on a fourth and 15 to close the first quarter...
...first, which Van Pelt picked up with a yard to spare. "The offense felt we could make it," Navarro explained later. "We've been having trouble with out snaps on kicks and I was concerned with the effect it might have on the team to get that close and come away with no points having tried a field goal when we were that close to the first down...
...offense avoided calamity as it opened the second half with a touchdown to take the lead. Beatrice lugged the ball from the 36 up close to midfield on a 12-yd. halfback option. Jon Hollingsworth (who had a fine second half) then ripped off a 21-yd. burst to put the Crimson...