Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entrepreneur Parnes's merchandise is all live, and it all sings rock 'n' roll. In his six-room Kensington flat he houses, feeds, clothes and trains five young singers whom he dug up from mines, slums and back-alley pubs. Parnes guarantees each of the hipsters $2,800 his first year, $11,200 by his third year, plus 60% of all recording royalties. For the other 30%, plus 10% agent's fees, he watches over their appearance (longish hair, with an occasional permanent), their manners and morals ("the more they can date the better...
...first half of the program consisted of Hindemith's Symphony in E-flat, composed in 1930. This is a turgid, tense work, and it received a rather turgid, tense performance. There were some passages of technical finesse and sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...
...great split save by Jones at the three minute mark, the varsity forced play in the Yale zone until the puck was tied up at 4:27 for a faceoff in the circle to Jones' right. Reilly swung as the referee dropped the puck. His shot caught the goalie flat-footed in the near corner, bouncing into the left-hand side to tie the game...
...week cleared up a home front problem that had plagued him for months. The problem: if his 1960 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination collapses, as his vice-presidency bid did in 1956, will he have time to campaign for re-election to the Senate? Solution: Humphrey got a flat commitment from Minnesota's ambitious but loyal Democrat-Farmer-Labor comrade, Governor Orville Freeman, that no D.F.L. competition for Humphrey's seat will be tolerated until Humphrey gives the word that the presidency situation is settled...
Periodically over the centuries, the area known as the Borinage gives a twitch of excruciating pain, and all Belgium suffers. Death has always been close by in that flat, depressing southern region...