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Word: minuets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program closed with Haydn's Symphony No. 82 (L'ours). This attractive symphony, complete with a warlike minuet and growls in the last movement, was well handled. The violins blossomed, especially at the beginning of the Allegretto, producing a brilliant, focussed sound. The rest of the strings were almost equally effective, if one overlooks murky cello noises in certain fast passages...

Author: By Stephen Hart, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 11/14/1966 | See Source »

...Trios were delightful, and in the recapitulations the Minuet overcame its initial rhythmic weakness. The last repetition was almost perfect, and thus served as a final reminder that the performance was a solid one, marred only by the unfortunate surfeit of strings...

Author: By Stephen Hart, | Title: HRO at Sanders | 11/7/1966 | See Source »

...York, and in 1960 and 1964 tried his best to get the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Javits had little choice but to support Rockefeller's White House aspirations. The Senator will be 62 next week; 1968 will be his last chance. Last week he completed an elaborate minuet whose burden was Javits for Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: A Mormon-Jewish Ticket? | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...head. But it had to be done firmly be cause the generals were now determined once and for all to oust Sukarno's strongest ally, crafty Foreign Minister Subandrio, and the rest of the pro-Communist Ministers, from the 96-man Cabinet. So day after day, the delicate minuet continued as Suharto alternated between public assurances that Sukarno was still top man and private pressure on him to give in to the army's demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Emergency Time | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...social implications in the message of Christ, who came, says Thomas J. Liggett, head of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico, "to radically change the circumstances of men." In the revolutionary climate of Latin America, warns Rafael Cepeda, a Presbyterian minister from Cuba, "the churches are dancing the minuet while the world is dancing to jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Conversion in Latin America | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

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