Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shape of a composition in the air with gracefully masculine gestures. "I can feel the audience through my back as if I were facing them," he says, and he is the first to admit that some of his gyrations are for the audience's benefit. "For a cymbal crash, the player will come in anyway, but if I give a big gesture, it just adds to the high point. Or in the development section of Beethoven's Eroica symphony, I'm not sure the audience is hearing everything-the different modulations, the canonic effects. I point...
Died. Waddill Catchings, 88, Wall Street financier and spectacular loser in the 1929 crash; of a kidney infection; in Pompano Beach, Fla. During the market madness of the 1920s, Catchings rose from a clerk to president of investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co., sat on the boards of 29 companies, and in 1928 launched Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.-a mutual fund which cost its holders close to $300 million when the price plummeted from $232 to $1.75 per share. Catchings resigned, later headed Muzak Corp. and retired last year as president of Concord Fund...
...York Times gave only four inches at the bottom of a column on page 19 to the death exactly one month ago of Otis Redding. The Times reported the plane crash and listed the musicians who were killed. In view of the awed tone of accounts of other deaths, and pages on funerals which the President attends, one must be at least bemused by the ways in which the world distributes honor...
Dalhousie entered the tournament sky-high. The Classic was dedicated to two Dalhousie stars killed in an automobile crash two weeks ago, and the survivors were playing like Knute Rockne-inspired warriors...
...problem is that the traditional ritual requires the presence of a naked virgin and there aren't many of them in communal crash pads...