Word: impromptu
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...What does Harvard think it is, a city within itself, like the Vatican?" Vellucci asked reporters at an impromptu interview in his City Hall office yesterday morning. He was sharply critical of the Presidency selection process, which he said made no provision for consulting the "duly elected officials of the City of Cambridge...
...involving science, such as the use of herbicides by the U.S. in Viet Nam? With Seaborg or any other Government official as president, these activists fear that criticism of Government policies by the A.A.A.S. would be extremely difficult, if not impossible. They may well voice their fears in an impromptu floor debate at the association's annual meeting in Chicago this week...
With a curious combination of Gallic courtesy, reckless abandon and careful planning, the impromptu bandits -generally operating in two-man teams -thereupon hit seven Marseille banks in 57 days. They never wore masks or gloves. They never fired a gun or struck anyone. When an elderly lady fainted during a holdup, one gang member, Antoine Nitti, gave her a glass of water and embraced her before fleeing...
...asset his money need not buy is his brilliance as a campaigner. As he moves through a crowd slapping backs, pinching biceps, winking, remembering names, he goes with an aura of confident pleasure. He has spent many hours at beaches, plunging into waves and joining impromptu samba sessions. Goldberg has climbed a 42-ft. ladder to be photographed with construction workers; that is apparently as far as he will go in that kind of stumping...
...sense of the word. Pedestrian is a more apt description. The pieces Katin plays are somewhat boring: a "Beethoven" Bayatelle which is just that, a piece of little interest revolving around an absurdly simple little figure; a pensive, delicate, yet only mildly competent "Schubert" Moment Musicale; a "Chopin" Impromptu in F Minor which is rather heavy and plodding; and so on through Lizst, Debussy, and Brahms, and over to the second side on which Mrs. Brown gives us an inspirational message before commencing what sounds like a series of second-year piano drills...