Word: combi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece, his best so far, in Bernstein's estimation. Still remembered is his brilliant musical, On the Town (1944), in which he fairly knocked the eyebrows off the highbrows by his combi nation of popular style and serious technique. Earlier attempts notwithstanding, Bernstein was the first to synthesize serious music and jazz with real ease...
...second weakness lies in the combi nation of Communism, nature and man in China. In a ferocious gamble, the three have been brought into deliberate conflict. Mao & Co. are men in a hurry, ambitious to "build a mighty industry like Russia's" (said Mao in 1953) faster than Russia did it, by imitating the Russian pattern and, if possible, avoiding Russia's mistakes. The first Five-Year Plan is Chinese Communism's big push. In ,its first year the successes that Communist propagandists claim are due chiefly to reaching top capacity in factories already built by their...