Word: master
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Marcel Dupré, 62, is one of the few men who has ever claimed to know all of the fat and formidable organ literature of Bach by heart. As a performer of Bach and other early masters, he has his rivals: in famed Bach Scholar Albert Schweitzer and Princeton's Carl Weinrich. But Dupré is also a master of the moderns...
Graduation over, he settled down last week at the University of Chicago's summer school to work on a master's degree in economics. He expected it would take him the standard two years...
...announcement was made by Prague's Communist Rude Pravo, which printed a communique from the Cominform. With Moscow's tough, party purge-master Andrei Zhdanov in charge, the Cominform had recently held a meeting "somewhere in Rumania...
...among Olivier's surest assets may also account for a weakness. He freezes such a jet of enchantment as Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered with cold irony; but on the words, Are you honest? he is like a scalpel. He is a particular master of the sardonic, of complex reaction and low-keyed suffering, of princely sweetness and dangerousness of spirit, and of the mock-casual. On the invention of business, he is equally intelligent and imaginative. I am glad to see thee well is delivered with a pat on the head to a performing...
Biggest & Fastest. All this is a far cry from the elevator seen by New Yorkers at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853. The inventor, a New England master mechanic named Elisha Graves Otis, rode up & down in it, occasionally making the crowd gasp by cutting the elevator's rope cable with a knife. Others, as far back as Archimedes, had built vertical hoists of one kind or another, but Otis was the first to build one with an automatic safety catch to keep it from falling. It was a kind of ratchet, like the gadget that prevents the spring...