Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first performance at Dublin in 1742, Handel's "Messiah," although recognized as one of the greatest pieces of church music, has, only through its association with Christmas, survived the fate of his other works so long relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
...winter racing's sunny prospects couldn't quite cut the fog that hung over the just ended northern season. With two big-name trainers, Tom Smith and Dolly Byers, already charged with doping horses, the Maryland Racing Commission decided to check further. It consulted a new saliva test chemist. Result: four horses that won at Pimlico on Nov. 19, one that finished fifth two days earlier, were found to have been doped...
...Weber still life, Colonial Table (second prize) to one of Ivan LeLorraine Albright's painfully detailed studies of decay. Where-Fore Now Ariseth the Illusion of a Third Dimension, an also-ran. Sure eye-catchers were two robust paintings of fishermen -Jon Corbino's moody, swirling Fog, which caught a moment of mist-bound helplessness at sea, and Zolton Sepeshy's briny fifth prize, Fisherman's Morning, full of the smells of a Lake Michigan fish pier...
...carrier hero, exec of the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, Captain of the twice-Kamikazed Ticonderoga, who remained on the bridge for eleven hours directing damage-control operations after he had absorbed 65 bomb-fragment wounds; when his twin-engine plane crashed near Beacon, N.Y. in pea-soup fog...
...much bargaining, the committee found, is now carried on in a fog of misrepresentation. The wide use of unbiased committees of economists, engineers and sociologists whose facts would be acceptable to labor & management would go a long way toward clearing...