Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right to share in the revenues of the rich mines and plants that produce and process the copper, tin, uranium, and cobalt (60% of free world output) developed by Belgium's fat Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...
...independently attempted many of the experiments that Ives had performed so long before. But gradually, word of Ives's work spread among musicians, and his difficult compositions began to be heard. An astounded Paris critic summed up his achievement: "Charles Ives seems to have created, before the Sacre du Printemps, a style which by its audacities places its author among the pioneers of music...
...enters the White House, we will have a friend in him? A.: Why are you using "if?" Q.: What are his essential qualities? A.: Courage, hard work, culture, love of a job well done, a willing and reflective character. Q.: Does he have any faults? A.: Potted too (Pas du tout, or "Not at all"). Q. (edged with Gallic suspicion): That's too good to be true? A. (in most sagacious tones): You don't want me-his mother and best election agent-to unveil the weaknesses of my John? . . . Like the scholiasts of old, two U.S. intellectuals...
Ibbetson, based on the mistily romantic 19th century novel by George du Maurier, has to do with a young architect who meets the girl he once loved as a child in Paris, learns that she is married but continues to carry on a sort of astral affair with her in his dreams. The opera, like the book, juxtaposes scenes of fact and fantasy in a pre-Freudian demonstration of the relation between the inner and outer life. At Ibbetson's premiere, the hero's curiously frustrated longings were enough to reduce the audience to tears, but at last...
...liquid-level sensor that it is now being used on nuclear submarines to detect sea water in the launching tubes of Polaris missiles and in the ground-fueling system for some liquid-fueled missiles. Rod also envisions nonmilitary use of his device, has sold an ultrasonic measuring device to Du Pont for chemical gauging, another liquid-level sensor to a utility to measure the water level in a high-temperature boiler. Says Rod: "You have to keep pushing...