Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...espouses no end of peace causes and regularly attacks U.S. foreign policy. In a strident article in 1962, the Review accused Pauling of "acting as megaphone for Soviet policy" and lending his "name, energy, voice and pen to one after another Soviet-serving enterprise." A second Review article took note of the number of libel suits brought by Pauling and derided the "brazen attempts at intimidation of the free press by one of the nation's leading fellow travelers...
Allegretto Con Amore. It is as if Liszt or Paganini had returned from the grave. Everyone in the hall's 2,760 seats rises and gives the 61-year-old pianist a standing ovation before he has played a note. He rushes to the piano and begins. The lean, intense face seems to exhale a melancholy all its own, but the fingers are as joyous as they were in the old days. The Chopin sings; the opaque, psychedelic visions of Scriabin are somehow made lucid. A critic calls him still a monarch. His wife is overjoyed...
Your otherwise informative note on concentration in History and Science carried with it one error which I would like to correct. You comment that the rules relating to college study are inaccurate when they suggest that most seniors take their generals in one of the regular fields of history, and suggest instead that they actually use the History of Science...
Farm System. Donnie-as all the pussycats in the trade call him-did it without being able to read a note of music. That in itself is not so odd, since most pop performers nowadays cannot sing a note of music. "What I just seem to have," he says, "is an infallible ear for picking hits." He picks them by getting unsung writers to produce them on order. "I can hear a kid hit a note," he says, "and I know whether he has it or not." He keeps a farm team of young writers whom he pays...
...like a scene from an early novel by Evelyn Waugh. An intellectual dandy, hardly a year out of Oxford and already weary of the world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...