Word: mixed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Constant Lambert, 45, British composer, conductor, author; of diabetes; in London. At 20, he wrote a score for Romeo and Juliet (premiered by the Ballet Russe in 1926), soon began to mix conducting with composing, joined the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington...
...quick man on his feet (for three sets), says: "Make him run." Talbert's pal and protégé Tony Trabert, the 20-year-old sensation of the summer circuit, thinks the answer is: "Hit 'em harder." Gardnar Mulloy, a canny old hand at 37, says: "Mix...
...postwar General Patton tank (plus modernizing several hundred World War II Pershings, mostly for Korea). Principal trouble: the arsenal is used as a research and development center and as a repair depot, in addition to its production duties. World War II experience was that those three functions do not mix well...
...experience. "I don't pitch as fast as I used to," says Bob, "don't know whether I could. I guess I'm only about 85 or 90% as fast as I used to be. I don't try fast balls so much. I mix them up a good deal by trying curve balls and sliders. Hitters aren't afraid I'll hit them with wild pitches like I used to, so it's harder to pitch to them. They know I've got good control...
...Venezuela's usually censored press printed his remarks: "Democracy without liberty of the press is impossible. It's no help to the government to have a press which only praises it." Then, though Venezuela now lives under a military dictatorship, he said forthrightly that armies should not mix in government: "Anyone who uses the army as an instrument for political aspirations is defeated beforehand." After this ringing statement, Plaza tactfully decorated the three members of Venezuela's ruling junta...