Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving ahead about a century in musical literature, the orchestra turned to Bela Bartok's Rumanian Dances. Fascinated by the folk music of eastern Europe, the composer combed the countryside of Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia recording the songs he heard. Not content with imitating the melodies in his own music, Bartok, as he once wrote, tried to "command this musical language so completely that it becomes the natural expression of his own musical ideas." The Bach Society responded to the unique harmonies and rhythmic patterns and conveyed well the vitality Bartok found in the Rumanian villages...
Autographs (or holographs), as distinct from mere signatures, are by definition documents in the author's handwriting - preferably signed by him. Their value depends on rarity, content -usually their historic significance - and the writer's eminence. With inflation and the uncertain stock market, many buyers have turned to autographs and other tangible investments like diamonds, antiques and rare books, thus driving up prices. "In the past five to seven years, business has more than doubled, even tripled," says Doris Harris, a Los Angeles autograph dealer. Reports Sara Willen, another Los Angeles dealer: "Good manuscripts on the average...
...also oppose the content and style of the ad itself. The ad was in poor taste both in graphics and in text. The pseudo-scientific eroticism exploited sexuality and the mystical authority of science in a most exaggerated and deceptive manner...
...engineered by a bunch of people over at CREEP. All Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into a calamity", and leaves it at that. In another section, Higgins concludes that Nixon's major fault was not that he was "arrogant...ruthless...petty, ungenerous, somewhat bigoted, and monumentally cynical" but "simply that...
...long time Harvard was content in its few meager athletic offerings, adding piecemeal additions across the river in order to compete successfully on the intercollegiate level. But the last few years have brought a boom in women's athletics on campus, and federal government legislatgon requiring equal facilities for both sexes. These pressures, plus a recreational sports program that keeps tripling in the number of users, and a lack of access to athletic facilities for another slighted group, graduate students, all made the need for new facilities one of the University's more desperate imperatives...