Word: lone
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...small brass and wind ensemble (augmented by a lone bass viol) had far greater problems to overcome in Varese's Octandre, composed in 1924. One of the major difficulties of this score is that it depends for its effect almost entirely on subtle variations of volume and orchestration for its effect. Moreover, it is written without much care for the capacities of the individual instruments and makes enormous, almost unattainable, demands on the rhythmic accuracy of the players. It is certainly not an aggressively unpleasant work and some piquant arrangements of the brass sonorities were intriguing. Yet, the work seems...
...lone returnee, captain Mike Donohue, will be back at guard, where he averaged nine points a game in 1958-9. Donohue is a fine playmaker, and the team's floor leader. Quick and aggressive, he should stand out on defense as well...
Eliot's 3 to 1 victory over Dunster in the soccer play-off Wednesday gives them the right to play Calhoun College, the winner of the Yale inter-house rivalry at 2 p.m. today. In the Wednesday contest, Eliot dominated the play, allowing the lone goal on a penalty in the last minute of the game...
...lone freshman dorm game, a touch football contest between Grays Hall and the winner of the Yale interdorm contest, takes place at 2 p.m. Grays tied the play-off game against Weld on Wednesday, but was elected to face Yale due to its earlier 7 to 5 victory over Matthews North, which Weld tied...
...that the warmest personal experience of all had been the visit to the Libertyville, Ill., home of Adlai Stevenson. In the pleasantly chaotic informality of Stevenson's home, the President and Mrs. Touré escaped for the first time the stiffness of state visit protocol. Stevenson's lone maid bustled about getting food and drink ready while the Touré party inspected the Halloween jack-o'-lanterns which leered in through the windows from the dark and rain outside. (Stevenson had carved some of them himself at breakfast time.) The conversation wandered amiably from such subjects...