Word: finales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Crystal, a definite goal for the campaign has not yet been set, but the final figure is expected to exceed the $13,000 collected last year, when the goal...
...Senate president, in a nonpartisan election. Though both candidates preached the same sermon-revitalize Boston's sagging economy-Underdog Collins made his gains by continuous attacks on Powers' massive political support ("Power politics"), which included the backing of Richard Cardinal Gushing and Senator John Kennedy. In the final week Collins capitalized on a published photo of a police-raided gambling house that was plastered with a Powers campaign poster. Said Collins to TV viewers four days before election: "Except for you, I am alone...
...challenge the prowess of every red-blooded driver from Bognor Regis to Balquhidder when the initial 72-mile stretch of Britain's first six-lane throughway opened last week after 590 days abuilding. M1, as the government proudly labeled the London-Birmingham Motorway, is intended-when its final 45 miles are completed-to almost halve the time it now takes to crawl along a major industrial artery (average speed: 23.4 m.p.h.). But it boasts one feature guaranteed to lure speed-starved drivers from all parts of Britain. It has no speed limit...
...becomes part of the drama. In last week's performance (which marked the U.S. debut of opulent-voiced Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn) Jenufa proved to be as haunting a work as Alban Berg's Wozzek (TIME, March 16). From its ominous opening xylophone solo to the final burst of harp-punctuated melody, the village tragedy unfolded without the benefit of set pieces, ensembles or arias. Heavily percussioned, the orchestra sometimes sank to a rich, nervous whisper flickering through the strings, sometimes burst forth in anguished, brassy cries. Throughout, Janacek's use of exotic folk idiom wrapped...
...final similarity with the sciences lies in the difficulty both areas have in getting the proper senior faculty to teach undergraduate courses. Because of the vast gap between the level of professional work and the elementary nature of undergraduate work--a gap so great that the difference is not only of degree of sophistication but of content--many professors are either reluctant to teach undergraduates or incapable of making the transition...