Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace and Sol Hurok's Music Festival. Producer Max Liebman will try to develop Comic Buddy Hackett as a top comedian with a half-hour comedy series...
...Reader Marsh is right. Says Photographer Max Haas: "I took that picture in the Cotton Club some 25 years ago, thought it was Ellington. The picture has run in publications in the U.S. and all over the world. Until now, no questions were raised." For a picture of the Duke, celebrating his 3Qth birthday at the Cotton Club...
...Violinist Alexander Schneider, Brooklyn College's Siegmund Levarie, De Paul's Alexander Tcherepnin and the American Conservatory of Music's Max Sinzheimer...
...Illinois has had a team working on a way to change all that. The project was launched when university authorities found engineering applicants were consistently ill-equipped mathematically, wasted months in learning basic math skills they should have learned in high school. It assigned young (then 26) Mathematician Max Beberman of the University's College of Education to show the high schools how to step up their math instruction. Beberman, later joined by Page, decided the trouble lay in the whole approach to math teaching. He junked old methods, drew up a new curriculum, now has five Midwest high...
...literary precursor of the novel was the tale, originally an oral narrative. In the hands of such latter-day practitioners as Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, the tale became a highly sophisticated means of telling a story that would not be believable if told in any other tone of voice. In The Seven Islands, Novelist Jon (The House by the Sea) Godden makes the unbelievable believable by spinning with quiet skill a stately little tale about India and hanging from its frail threads the weight of an ancient way of life...