Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murphy, first studied piano at four; his researcher, Ruth Brine, who joined in the long interviews with Soprano Price, began piano at three. Murphy, the son of Columbia University Music Professor Howard Ansley Murphy, became an opera addict at ten, recalls falling in love with Madame Butterfly as a frequent standing-room auditor in his early teens. But it was only last week, after four years and four cover stories as TIME music critic, that Murphy heard his most "beautiful" Cio-Cio-San-sung by Miss Price...
When Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning was produced in 1948, a great new hone seemed to have dawned for the English-speaking theater. None of Fry's other plays (A Phoenix Too Frequent, Venus Observed, The Dark Is Light Enough) matches Lady in language and, particularly, in dramatic coherence. But even at his weakest, Fry has led a triumphant one-man parade against the modern theater's main movements. Where virtually all other playwrights were committed to realism or surrealism. Fry wrote romantic and imaginative drama; where poetry had been banished from...
...pretend to believe the statements and continue the conversation on that basis. As most volunteers are considerably younger than the average patients, they are reluctant flatly to contradict the patients' statements--a discourtesy in any case--although it seems impossible to agree. I think that an all too frequent reaction is to try turning preposterous statement into jokes and to leave it at that...
...students--who are evidently passionately interested in Peace Corps and international affairs--do not use it. One reason that has been suggested is that not enough people ever hear of the Center and that they would run like rabbits toward it if they had. Yet there is a more frequent complaint: the administration of the Center frowns on political discussion and absolutely prohibits political speeches. Those who advance this objection argue with some reason that they wish to do more with the company of foreigners than to radiate good will; they are concerned about the politics of other countries...
...frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Miss Gordimer is the author of two novels, The Lying Days and A World of Strangers. She has published three collections of short stories, titled The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Six Feet of the Country, and Friday's Footprints...