Word: frail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalin called his work "noise, not music." Pravda once sneered that it "reeks of the bourgeois." Now the sour notes have died away, and there he was in the Moscow Conservatory, shy, bespectacled and frail as ever, answering cheers at a concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich received another gift too: the Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Best of all was the successful first Moscow performance of his new piece, Cello Concerto No. 2, conducted by a similarly slight, bespectacled musician: Dmitri's 28-year-old son Maxim...
Ailing Fox. Such a victory, moreover, would have serious repercussions for the monarchy. At 78, ex-Premier George Papandreou is becoming aware that life itself is ephemeral. In the past year, "the Old Fox" has become frail and ail ing, and control of the party is passing day by day into the hands of his ambitious 47-year-old son Andreas, who harangues the voters on the need for "redistribution of income to the poorer classes" and "a dash of socialism." Papandreou the elder had his differences with King Constantine, but he nonetheless favored the monarchy as an institution, arguing...
...unexpected early end to Astronaut Richard Gordon's space walk - provided scientists with valuable data that may help prevent similar problems on future missions. It was also a humbling reminder that for all his powerful rockets, com plex capsules and sophisticated electron ics systems, man's frail frame itself is the limiting factor in space exploration...
...frail tykes born two months premature, Venezuela's Prieto Quintuplets have developed into quite a gang. "They are terrible," groaned Mamá Inés Maria Cuervo de Prieto as the five boys celebrated their third birthday with the neighbor children in Maracaibo. "Anyone who stays with them for more than one hour will go out of his mind. When they're together, they're a catastrophe." The trouble is, sighed Mamá, they're always together. "Each is different," she mused. "Mario is the strongest. Otto gets mad easy. Juan José is the smallest...
...case began last spring when a frail, 82-year-old lady named Eva Savage consigned a batch of 35 presumably undistinguished paintings to Christie's to be auctioned. Her husband, who died 15 years ago, had been a picture framer whose practice was to buy old frames which he would then regild and use. Often the pictures in the frames went with the deal. On one such occasion in 1933, Mrs. Savage recalls, her husband bought a wagonload of frames at an average price of 10 shillings each from a dealer in York, who for good measure happened...