Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loud ovation for Congress on their recent ban of cigarette advertising from television [Jan. 11]. No more disillusionment of springtime in winter, tasteless bad grammar, tar and nicotine counts, special filtration and Micronite filters, cigarette-holder comparisons, dancing and singing cigarette packs, smokers who would rather fight than switch, etc. Now let's eliminate smoking in public places...
...long considered a classic of atonal music, was simply too "modern" and too unmelodic for the Israel Philharmonic's public, many of whom believe that real music may have stopped with the arrival of Stravinsky. "We come to the concerts tired and want to relax," explained one subscription holder. "We have our own problems and don't need Schoenberg's on top of them...
Died. Ruth Law Oliver, 83, pioneer aviatrix, the first woman to loop the loop in a plane, the holder of numerous speed and distance records, notably with her 680-mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, N.Y., and star of Ruth Law's Flying Circus in the early 1920s; in San Francisco...
Brock majored in commerce at Washington and Lee University, but is no longer active in the family business headed by his father, William Brock Jr. And his rooting attachment is now for the University of Tennessee, where he is a season-ticket holder for football games...
...many ways, though, the most impressive of Joffrey's discoveries is huge (6 ft. 4 in.) Trinidad-born Christian Holder, 21. Blessed with a lean, rubbery face and with limbs of astonishing flexibility, Holder has a good actor's ability to turn his towering physique to dramatic effect. As the puppet villain in Petrouchka, he presents the quaint spectacle of a black performing in blackface and shows a notable gift for deadpan comedy. His terrorizing, primitive presence as Death in Kurt Jooss's antiwar tract, The Green Table, dominates the stage and sends chills through even...