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...government and officials to turn over a new leaf." Quirino ordered the constabulary to withdraw its patrols, not fight unless attacked. To Luis Taruc, the Huk commander, he sent word that he was ready to offer a general amnesty if the Huks would turn in their guns. But lean Communist Luis Taruc was not planning to let the Huks do anything of the kind. He sent word back this week that he was ready for "revolution, if this is the only remaining alternative...
Furniture and furnishings--some given by alumni and friends and others on lean from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiques and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts--are examples of these found in a New England House of the early nineteenth century...
...Lean, sandy Roy Harris is a composer; he also has to eat. One spring day, he recalls, "it suddenly occurred to me that I was living in a ... civilization where cops and janitors and everyone else got paid for being what they were-everybody except composers ... So I decided never to write again except for a fixed sum of money agreed upon in advance." His policy has brought him a better living in the last 15 years than most U.S. composers outside of Hollywood...
...productions in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's current Boston repertoire have been on the disappointing side for this reviewer. A flaw or two in the casting have been noticeable, and perhaps some of the romantic glow assumed by the Gilbert and Sullivan operas during the lean years tended to disappear when they were seen again. Gilbert and Sullivan, despite the somewhat mystical reputation which time has given them, were no more consistent than any creative personalities, and there are bare spets and distinctly less interesting operas among their work...
Davison also taught Eddie a wrong thing or two: he believed in laying plenty of whip to a horse. Eddie now believes that too many riders lean too heavily on the whip. The trick, he says, is to use the least possible at the right time. Arcaro often just waves the stick before a horse's eye ("it kind of scares them...