Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nyiregyházi's record and tapes fascinate: in an age of precision playing, they are passionate. His slow tempos, like Liszt's, are funereal; each note seems weighted. He repeats at will sections that he finds lyrical. When he is loud, he is very, very loud, and often the great rushes of sound are overpedaled into a blur...
...Prince declined to call the F-15 issue a test of U.S. reliability as an ally, but he did note the "mutual interests" of the two countries. "We believe we have legitimate defense requirements. We expect that these requirements will be accepted and understood by all our friends, especially the U.S., with which we have longstanding traditional relations, always based on the mutual interests of the two countries. Frankly, a positive attitude by the American Congress toward the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia will be regarded as proof of the continuity and strengthening of relations between...
...Quizmaster's note: None of the above obnoxious remarks were intended in any way for my mother or Dave Scheper, who is Harvard's reigning sports trivia king...
Unlike her predecessors, the present Queen has been trained as head of state from the beginning. It is significant to note the difference in the education she got and that Princess Margaret got, and the discipline that the Queen has been under and Princess Margaret has not. I don't say Margaret would ever have made such a good Queen. But she could have been brought up very differently. Elizabeth, thank God, married the right man, himself brought up in the navy, and has an eldest son who is also a professional naval officer...
...born, appropriately enough, during the Derby week of 1960, the sort of coincidence that horse people would note over cigars and christening gifts. His father had been an exercise boy before settling down as a blacksmith, and his mother had trained horses. Little Steve was still in diapers when his parents took him 75 miles down the road to Louisville to be present at his first Derby...