Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rondo almost turn it into a gay ensemble from an opera buffa. The piano soloist was Kenneth McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered and nearly flawless. He clearly recognized the limits of the Mozart style and stayed within them. The only incongruities were the two cadenzas--fascinating but stylistically too advanced--which on later inquiry...
Colombia's Foreign Minister had earlier announced that the talks would "go a little beyond mere protocol," but if the strongmen made any agreement, they did not announce it. There is no political tension between the countries. Regardless of what they said, by merely meeting, the Presidents affirmed what every dictator who is trying to keep the lid on likes to know: the flanking nation is in understanding hands. "We are both military men," said Rojas Pinilla later. "We have the same problems and the same "enemies...
...moviegoer's sense that he is sharing in the execution of a great and significant event. And Actor Stewart, for all his professional, 48-year-old boyishness, succeeds almost continuously in suggesting what all the world sensed at the time: that Lindbergh's flight was not the mere physical adventure of a rash young "flying fool," but rather a journey of the spirit, in which, as in the pattern of all progress, one brave man proved himself for all mankind as the paraclete of a new possibility...
...zeal directed against the bad food and Institute hikes in prices had somewhat abated last night as a result of a statement released yesterday by John T. Rule, Dean of Students. The dean said that the mere presence of a student at "a riotous or unauthorized demonstration" would be "probable grounds for expulsion from the Institute...
...strength of its staff, and the ratio of tutors to students. The New York Times Magazine succinctly expressed the idea in 1930: "The success of the House plan eventually depends on the tutor who furnishes the manpower of the educational plant, of which the House is a mere shell." At present, while the House possess potentially strong staffs, their manpower in relation to the number of students in each House is negligible. As the number has increased, the proportion of tutors has decreased, while the Houses, hence the College, have suffered...