Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comes the Revolution. All through the '20s, Shields sailed and won in class after class: the old "New York Thirties" (44-ft.), the rakish six-meter sloops, Victory Class and Larchmont Interclubs. The summer of 1929 was particularly gay. Everyone, it seemed, had money for yachting: old Sir Thomas Lipton, frustrated since 1899, when Shamrock lost in the America's Cup race, was busily building the last of his challengers, Shamrock V. A new racing class, the 30-ft. Atlantic Class sloop, was hot off the drafting board of famed Designer W. Starling Burgess (Shields...
Wildly cheered on by some 6,000 fellow townsmen, including his parents and sister, versatile Milt alternately sped and powerhoused his graceful bulk through the decathlon's exacting tests. He sprinted the fastest 100-meter dash of his life (10.5), and also took first in the 400-meter run, high jump and shot-put. Going into the second day with a big 717-point lead, Milt won the 110-meter high hurdles by nearly a second in 14.3, later loped heavy-footed through the 1,500-meter run to pick up a final 134 points...
...Norman ("Uncle Normie") Ross, 57, Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...
...than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although all the numbers are still in triple meter, the light-hearted waltz spirit is no longer so pronounced; in its place appears a new profundity culminating in an epilogue which is no longer a waltz but set in the more complex form of the chaconne...
...Tawfig Sayish, is overbalanced with strained imagery ("the sleepless fish make weary passes at the blushing corn") but it also conveys a dignity and sense of wonder. There can be little praise, however, for Peter Junger's "Sea Change," in which a trite subject is locked in an erratic meter...