Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Julius Patzak, tenor; the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter; London). These six songs were intended as Mahler's ninth symphony, but a personal superstition made him forgo the title. The dusky warmth of Ferrier's singing, the bright clarity of Patzak's, and the lurid orchestral colors run the gamut of gaiety and sadness. A definitive recording...
...excused from his military classes at Sandhurst to have a sinus operation in London; Finland's President Juho Paasikivi, 82, ordered by his doctors to take a week's rest when they decided he was working too hard; and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, ordered to forgo two of his favorite sports, skiing and horse jumping, because of a weak vertebra, the result of an old auto accident...
...Meudon, near Paris. After Rodin's death, she turned her devotion to a collection of cats; almost the only humans she suffered were the nuns of Meudon and the orphans they cared for. She took Holy Communion each day, but when she was absorbed in painting she would forgo Mass for a month at a time. Her style changed drastically: while her early canvases were built up from thin, fluid paint, she now changed to thick paint, made her colors lighter and lighter...
...Reds dropped their insistence on Russia as a member of the truce commission. With grudging satisfaction they noted U.N. willingness to forgo a ban on the building of North Korean airfields during the truce. But they still fiercely disputed the U.N.'s right to keep 100,000 military and civilian prisoners who had voted against a return to Communist control. Admiral Joy then coolly suggested that the truce talks be indefinitely suspended until the Reds were ready to accept the U.N. plan...
From the union came a quick reply. It has already agreed to forgo wage increases in 1952, said the T.W.U.A., and it has no objection to increasing output where better machinery is installed. T.W.U.A. pointed to an agreement signed a fortnight ago with Wyandotte Worsted Co.,under which individual work loads will be increased by close to 50% through the installation of improved machines. "If American Woolen's operations are inefficient," said T.W.U.A. Woolen-Worsted Division Chief John Chupka, "the blame could lie with management, not the union...