Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walton's polite English diligence. Composer Walton started his work two years ago on the Italian island of Ischia, but he and Piatigorsky, then touring the U.S. and Asia, kept in close touch. "I would cable him, IN BAR FOUR AFTER F. IS THAT A B OR B FLAT," says Piatigorsky. "and I would get an answer: B FLAT. SORRY. LOVE, WILLIE." The cabled exchange of suggestions and corrections went on even after the Boston premiere, and up to the Concerto's performance in London. Walton was bedded in a Rome hospital recovering from an auto accident. Piatigorsky...
...piano. Pretty soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body as hard and flat as a cricket bat, Geoffrey left school in his early teens to join a native Trinidad dance group that brother Boscoe had put together. By the time Boscoe departed for a dancing career in London, 19-year-old Geoffrey had picked up enough choreography and designing to take over the company...
...told by his father to "go coortin' " Louisa Kilner for her "brass." To the God-fearing Yorkshire farm folk of the East Riding, brass is land, the deity they worship six days of the week. Louisa is to inherit her father's farm on Sunk Island-a flat, melancholy spit of land reclaimed from the Humber estuary. To Sunk Island, Roger goes a-coortin...
...minimum pay for full professors will jump from $10,000 to $11,000. It is not certain whether a maximum exists. The increases for associate and full professors may not be a flat rate for all appointees. Senior faculty salaries are usually settled individually...
...Made out of solid materials, the new components were less susceptible to heat, dust and vibration, had but a fraction of the weight and bulk of old-fashioned tubes. Equally important, science also learned to replace the familiar maze of soldered wires with new printed and etched circuits as flat as playing cards...