Word: downe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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D.N.S. was started a few months ago by two 23 year olds, David Obst, who has the title of general manager, and Michael Morrow, its only fulltime staff writer. Obst acknowledges that the service has a left-of-center tone, but he adds: "This is not an antiwar news service...
Owens gets the ball deep in the backfield, and the idea, he says, "is to get to the line quick. You go pitter-patter-in' up there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out...
Second Youth. Janáček was born in 1854 in Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia. He studied music in the town of Brno, married there (unhappily), suffered through the early death of his two children, and enjoyed no major success as a composer until he was 60. About that...
Janáček was fascinated by the melodic curves of speech. He would eavesdrop on conversations in the street, jotting down musical notations of individual speech patterns. He claimed to have recorded 60 distinct ways in which the word yes could be pronounced. He was also fascinated by bird...
Janáček's work has been kept alive over the years by a handful of conductors such as Rafael Kubelik of Munich's Radio Orchestra and Charles Mackerras of London's Sadler's Wells Opera. Another devoted fan is Walter Susskind of the St...