Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Handel) as well as unfamiliar ones (Piccinni, Lampugnani, Bononcini, Shield). Joan Sutherland is the heroine of the album, her brilliant voice describing perfect arabesques in the stratosphere. Richard Conrad's flowing tenor blends beautifully with hers, and there is also ample opportunity to judge the fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, whose range, power and flexibility are formidable but who is not yet in the same galaxy as Sutherland...
What they had forgotten, I think, was that the "foes" in the case, the HCUA and the administration, although patently pro-aristocracy, pro-politics, pro-tradition, pro-male, and pro-seriousness, were really not evil. what could they do against such a fast, curved pitch? Quite predictably they squelched the vote which would probably have put me into the top four, locking it up in their dignified closets. But resist though they might my actual physical election, they could not undo the damage that had been done. The seriousness of my cause, or causes, lived an imperishable life...
...drag 'em so fast--they ride on their heels. Take 'em down a little slower--they bounce more that...
Venereal disease does not attract many medical researchers. There never have been great numbers of syphilologists, and their numbers and efforts have been sharply reduced since the 1945 discovery that penicillin is a fast and almost certain cure for early syphilis. But last week, as the most prominent U.S. syphilologists met in Denver for a VD seminar, it became clear that the cutback in research is premature. What is urgently needed is a vaccine against the disease...
...niece of Cardinal Mazarin, who was Italian but lived at Versailles as the Sun King's chief minister. She was also Louis' first love and first lady of his court until he exiled her on suspicion of trying to poison him (people changed sides very fast in love as well as war in those days). Eugen stayed on in Paris for three years, leaving only after his petition to join the French army was turned down by Louis himself...