Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager of Van's, traveled with him constantly, collecting research and protecting him from the constant demands on his time. The two soon found that they had a lot in common: Moor grew up in Texas not far from Van; each had studied piano with a pupil of Arthur Friedheim's, who in turn was a pupil of Liszt's. For this week's cover story, Moor sent TIME'S editors the tapes of the prizewinning Moscow...
What was his complaint, asked the officer. On his way to work that morning, Dr. Pasztor replied, he had been stopped by an AVH agent. The accusation was all too common in an Austria filled with 20,000 uneasy Hungarian refugees; how could he be so sure the man was an AVH agent? "Because I know him," Pasztor answered quietly. "His name is Jozsef Teleki, and he was one of my interrogators during the seven years I was imprisoned by the Communists." In the 1956 revolution, when AVHs were being hanged from lampposts, Teleki had even had the gall...
Kenneth McIntosh '58, piano, and Katherine Gratwick, violin, will give a concert of the music of Bach, Beethoven, Saint Saens, and John H. Harbison '60 tonight at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...sentence comment: "You had better stick to nonfiction.") Says Martin: "I've always been interested in the individual human being and what happens to him in a society that really doesn't work as well as it should. I think that's the common denominator of my work. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I think...
...with the local Fascist bullyboys in exchange for her deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks. But the peasants' manners are not quite so crude as their characters-grasping, thieving, sullen, vicious, cynical...