Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such an intense and violent campaign of discredit against Cuba been waged throughout the Americas. We must deprive the enemy of his principal weapon of attack." When would "the proceedings" end? Not, apparently, last week. Before Castro's firing squads went another 28 Batista men, bringing the grand total to 451. Among the new dead: the first judge, Arístides Pérez Andreu, president of Batista's Pinar del Rio Urgency Tribunal...
...Aintree, England, an eight-year-old English gelding named Oxo, at 8 to 1, won the 117th running of the famed Grand National Steeplechase. Only four of the 34 starters finished the rugged course...
...tortuous, intermittently rain-slick racecourse at Sebring, Fla., the sleek Italian Ferrari sports cars had a field day. Factory-team Ferraris finished one-two in the twelve-hour International Grand Prix of Endurance, took five of the first ten places. Winner of the other five top spots: West Germany's small, beetle-like Porsche. Notably out of it: Britain's highly touted Aston Martin and Lister-Jaguar...
...music two years ago with the formation of the Lyric, he has been doing all his own casting, drawing mostly on the NBC Opera and the New York City Opera companies, borrowing scenery from Manhattan's City Center. With citywide billboard displays, he challenges Philadelphia's entrenched Grand Opera Co. So far. the Lyric has been no more daring in repertory, will present ten works next season, three of which will be contemporary: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (both to be conducted by Leopold Stokowski), and Carlisle Floyd's Susannah...
...which laid down a hauntingly languorous theme on the ocarina, then echoed itself in a series of guitar, xylophone and muted cowbell flights as vaporous and softly glowing as a Japanese watercolor. Cohn's Quotations, on the other hand, utilized 103 instruments (including the exposed strings of a grand piano, which one player walloped with a lamb's-wool-covered drumstick) to achieve frequent climaxes of crashing, ear-numbing virtuosity. But the composition's most effective moments were also the most subdued: a passage in which drums rolled with the distant tremble of thunder while...