Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, seizing on a legal quibble (the case was improperly drawn) to mask its compassion, Spain's supreme court reversed the lower court's decision and ab solved Don Agustin of all blame with the passing note that he "was motivated by the sole desire to resolve with honor and efficiency the multiple and urgent problems facing his community." From all over Spain, letters of congratulation poured in, but for Don Agustin, onetime mayor of Santisteban, the kindest words of all were spoken by a weather-beaten olive picker in his town. "Don Agustin," said...
...finest music on the program was Prokofiev's Sonata No. 1, which is dedicated to Oistrakh. It opened with dark, slightly nasal low tones, sang its way up to the bright blossom of a double-stop and continued to sing to the last gay note. Highlights: a section of muted runs up and down the fingerboard that felt like being brushed with feathers, and a section that had the mysterious beauty of a girl singing to herself by a forest pool. When it was over, the crowd was too moved to cheer until the violinist came back...
...Dean Miles observed in an interview at his out-of-the-way third-floor office in Farnsworth House. He mentioned the application of a graduate with insufficiently high marks who wanted to be a philosopher as typical of the matters he had to handle. "The lady who wrote this note thought he was deserving because he had been in the Army." Miles said. "The answer was 'no'," he added...
...football team won three games and tied one, its season would be considered a success--especially if one of the victories was over Princeton. But this year's Crimson team, its brief flashes of brilliance against UMass, Columbia, and Princeton notwithstanding, closed the season Saturday on a very disappointing note...
...attendant didn't discover the loss until the pair was driving away and failed to note the license number...