Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whole Book. Besides these three, Khrushchev removed a man once regarded as his protégé: leonine, lug-eared Dmitry Shepilov, 51, ex-Foreign Minister responsible for the disastrous Soviet buildup in Egypt. For good measure Khrushchev threw out a couple of technocrat Deputy Premiers who had got in the way of his industrial planning: Maxim Saburov and Mikhail Pervukhin...
...first victory, a few days after Stalin's death (a victory undoubtedly obtained with the support of other Old Communists), had been to ease Stalin Protégé Malenkov out of the First Party Secretaryship, and 23 months later to force him to resign the Premiership, pleading incompetence ("My insufficient experience, my guilt and responsibility") on the way. This success may have given Khrushchev the key to his later maneuverings, for they were based on the tactic of winning to his side those people persecuted by Stalin, e.g., Zhukov and other Red marshals, and boldly stigmatizing...
...during its two-month season will give English-language productions of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, Strauss's Ariadne on Naxos, Rossini's Barber of Seville, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, plus Stravinsky's Rake's Progress (conducted by Stravinsky Protégé Robert Craft) and the premiere of The Tower, a one-act opera by young (24) U.S. Composer Marvin Levy. Crosby is also proud that his Santa Fe group, recruited from such companies as the NBC Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, is "completely self-contained...
...Civic Responsibility." While most Limaites sympathized with the strikers, the News would almost certainly have made a comeback if it had not been for its top ad salesman, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), persuasive Wayne G. Current. Live-wire Current, who quit the paper when Publisher McDowell cut commissions, decided to rally financial support for a new daily in Lima, and approached Sam Kamin and James A. Howenstine, two self-made industrialists who head Lima's Neon Products, Inc. (1956 gross: $7,000,000). The partners put up $100,000 and, at Current's suggestion, decided to sell...
Haydn, the first great master of the quartet medium, was represented by his Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1. Although composed in his last years, it is a fresh and daring work. The four musicians--violinists Marc Gottlieb and Vladimir Weisman, violist William Schoen, and 'cellist Irving Klein--performed it with a fine sense of ensemble and suitable restraint; in fact, the 'cellist tended to be too restrained. The first two movements went particularly well...