Word: minuets
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...unfortunate hornist, but it is a common enough practice, and this particular player was not up to it. He also succeeded in spoiling a large part of the orchestral accompaniment to the soprano in the Beethoven aria Primo amore, piacer del ciel. In the second half of the minuet in Haydn's Symphony No. 14, he not only had trouble in playing the correct intervals, but also played sharps where they were not written...
...very thing that has made him an admirably tireless pioneer-has also kept him a hopeless, penniless outsider all his life He conjures up such titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball 1 earn in the Shower Room and Happy Birthday to You! (Afro-Chinese Minuet), and when he talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer than the carpenter: imperfections...