Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green valleys around Birmingham, Ala. one night last week, some 60 of the neighbors piled into their cars and started out to make some calls. In Brookside, Steve Marshlar was doing his usual business, serving whites and Negroes food and drinks in segregated areas of his dilapidated café. Marshlar is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. Into his café marched the neighbors. They were garbed in white robes, masks and hoods...
...Russians and their German comrades are expected to make all possible trouble. McCloy is supposed to encourage German industry, but he knows that the countries which now have Germany's old markets may not like that. He is supposed to encourage German democracy, but he knows that poverty may lead again to extreme German nationalism...
Perfection. To Landowska, "this is my last will and testament. I have to make it perfect." She was taking plenty of time to make it that way-to make sure that exactly the balance and quality she wanted to hear would come off the wax. In her weekly sessions, she had worked 42 hours, making retake after retake, to record 45 minutes of music. At 70 (her birthday is actually July 5), the somewhat mystic, sometimes earthy little Polish-born woman is the acknowledged high priestess of the harpsichord, the sweet-sounding, twangy-bangy instrument she rescued from oblivion...
...Bach himself gave few hints of exactly how fast and how loud his music should be played. But few had failed to be impressed with her magnificent authority-and delighted with her puckish platform informality. (Between numbers, she chats confidentially with her audience: "I have worked so hard to make this pleasure...
...Americans understood better than silver-haired Jack Moakley what the Oxford-Cambridge team was proving in its U.S. tour: that competition can be fun and that a good athlete does not have to train to razor fineness to make a respectable showing. This week, Bannister & Co. planned to do better against a combined Harvard-Yale squad, but their day in Cambridge, Mass, would not be spoiled if they...