Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choreographer Balanchine, it was the fourth premiere in an amazing nine-week stretch. The first was Square Dance, a whimsical leap between cultures. To the chamber music of Corelli and Vivaldi and the cadenced commands of Square Dance Caller Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
With a toe-danced hoedown, a flight of several light-years into the abstract, an astringent costume piece and last week's boisterous blast of Fourth of July fireworks, Balanchine accomplished the richest and most varied season of his immensely productive career...
...order to attract better teachers, Wilson upped salaries so that he can now pay top professors as much as $15,000 instead of only $11,500. He put through a rule that all students with a below-C average would be put on probation, even though that meant one-fourth of the student body. He started a lecture series that brings to Texas such celebrities as W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot. The university now has a thriving press, and next month it will have a scholarly quarterly...
PENN-TEXAS CORP. is dickering to sell its 46% stock interest in Fairbanks, Morse (almost all of which is pledged against short-term loans) to Rockwell Spring & Axle Co. Cash-shy Penn-Texas also sold its fourth subsidiary in two months, Tex-Penn Oil, to Judarth Corp...
...SLEUTHS can seize insurance policies of tax delinquents who leave U.S., ruled Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Setting precedent, court said that Government may claim cash-surrender value of two policies held by a West Virginia doctor who skipped to Canada after conviction on income tax evasion...