Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speed & Savvy. A far cry from the dissension-riddled club that lost the 7 pennant to the Boston Red Sox on the last day of the season, this years Twins are a cocky, close-knit crew of opportunists who score runs in bunches (seven in one inning against Washington last week), have developed speed and savvy to complement their power at the plate. Last year the Twins stole only 55 bases in 164 games; this year, under the tutelage of Coach George Case, who pilfered 61 himself the Washington Senators in 1943 they have already stolen eight in eight games...
Hart's direction tends to compensate for much of the weakness in the writing, his actors working as a tightly-knit, sensitive ensemble, not the case with the other two plays...
...votes, mainly from the non-primary states, to come into the convention with at least a respectable bloc. If his strength, together with McCarthy's and that of a few favorite sons, is large enough to preclude a first-ballot victory for Johnson, Kennedy might then just possibly knit together a subsequent majority vote...
...Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...
...times the music offers too much development of too little substance, but it is nevertheless an impressive display of the composer's craft as well as his capacity for communication. Against this, the absence of startling innovation seems less important. After all, well-knit music that does not sound like hell deserves a hearing...