Word: hinterlander
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...experience and finesse, the budding LaSalles are no match for such famed international quartets as the Budapest, Griller or Paganini. But where these majestic ensembles tour the cosmopolitan concert circuits, quartets like the LaSalle are digging themselves in as hinterland institutions. The LaSalle finds that it has literally built a new audience. Moreover, by going out of its way to play for young listeners, it is building up chamber-music interest for the time when the youngsters will be buying their own concert tickets...
Harvard-and-Oxford-trained, lanky Diplomat Cabot is a member of the famous Boston family. His most publicized diplomatic success occurred in 1930 when, as third secretary in the Dominican Republic, he raced into the hinterland in his Oakland runabout to intercept an advancing revolutionary army and win its leaders to a plan for averting bloody warfare in the island. Rising rapidly thereafter from one Latin American post to another, he acted as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires in 1946, before moving on to such international hotspots as Belgrade, Shanghai and Helsinki...
...Into the Hinterland...
...rule, with no questions asked. Subscriber Claude Winter wrote him from British Guiana: "You'll find enclosed ... a half-carat diamond ... to extend my subscription to TIME as far as it will go ... I hope you'll grant this request. I'm working in the hinterland of this country, with an interest in diamond mining, and I'm situated far from most civilized amenities...
...steel barrier, or a deep-dug ditch; sometimes, it is a sea of soft sand, carefully smoothed so as to catch the footprints of all who try to pass. Heavily armed Vopos glare across the meridian at the outnumbered West German guards. Behind them in the Communist hinterland is silence and fear...