Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music, Prokofiev had put away the powerful pen that wrote the Fifth Symphony, used instead the light-nibbed one that wrote the delightful Classical Symphony. Lemonade Opera played The Duenna's tuneful arias, duets and quartets for laughs - and got them from a cheering, sell-out audience...
...Joseph J.. Koenig was a successful manufacturer of gift-shop novelties, with a pleasant middle age ahead of him. At that point, instead of taking up golf or Sunday painting, he decided that he might enjoy going to college-he never...
...mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
...this week, Children and Religion (Scribner; $2.50). Its author, Dora M. Chaplin, director of religious education at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Mass., cites it as an example of the kind of thing children hate-"the saccharine voice and the tense moments of imposed instruction." Instead, Author Chaplin recommends honest parental example and as little watering down of religious doctrine as possible...
...described his novel as "worthless," Carnegie's "heart almost stopped." But, plucking up his courage, he decided to 'borrow the ideas of a lot of other writers" and make them into "the best book on public speaking . . . ever . . . written." This book flopped, too, and Carnegie decided that instead of borrowing from, or acting like others, "you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life." Out of the depths of his heart and personal experience, he drew How to Win Friends and Influence People. Today, wiry, white-maned Dale Carnegie is one of the world...