Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer than British Columbians care to admit, trapping, timber and gold were enough to satisfy most of the immigrants. As late as 1939, the province had only two inhabitants per square mile of territory. The road system was primitive, the railroads-except for the transcontinental lines-a hoary joke. "You've got the scenery, you've got the timber," went an old refrain, "but I'm going East where the money...
...kind of glorified star club into a smooth-functioning repertory theater. During one rehearsal, temperamental Soprano Farrar turned to him in a fury and shouted: "You forget, maestro, that I am the star!" Toscanini, with a weary wag of his head, replied: "I thank God I know no stars except those in heaven which are perfect...
Teaching & Money-Raising. Because Oberlin is keyed to the demands of graduate schools, curriculum experiments are few (one enterprising exception: sending the entire junior class of Oberlin's top-ranked Conservatory of Music to study for a year at Salzburg's Mozarteum). A weakness : an almost interminable list of required courses, which tends to prevent a student from exploring deeply any subject except his major. The faculty is well-paid ($4,700-$12,500), deliberately weighted toward men who are good teachers first, publishing scholars second. The result -in addition to excellent teaching - is that while professors respected...
...beautiful wife ran away with an American years before, leaving him with a beautiful daughter now 16. Without religious props himself, he is bringing up Milly as a strict Catholic just as he had promised her mother he would. He has almost no money. Nothing really matters to him except Milly's future...
...little gold bell to summon up perfection itself. Now 66 and the widow of gallant, talented Captain Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, Diana has written a story that might have been just another garrulous memoir in which an old lady shows her medals except for the familiarity with which she evokes the world of the pre-1914 British aristocracy. It was the era that G. B. Shaw in one of his plays dubbed Heartbreak House...