Word: ont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in turn-of-the-century Newtonbrook, Ont., now swallowed up by an expanding Toronto. The second son of an itinerant $700-a-year Methodist minister, Pearson likes to say: "We were rich in everything but money." His father, the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, who was known to his congregations as "the baseball-bashing parson," taught his sons baseball, hockey, football, and a firm sense of Methodist duty. Lester also learned something about politics from his maternal grandfather, who lost every time he stood for Parliament...
...avoid it. We seek to judge an artist in London, Ont., by as severe a standard as one in London, England; and if we are inescapably American, we try not to let any regionalism show. But for the past eleven weeks the biggest story in the biggest city in the U.S.-where we publish-has been the shutdown of New York's seven daily newspapers. This week that strike becomes the subject of TIME's cover story, and not for reasons of localitis. Everybody is talking about it, even Moscow Radio...
...were sealed off, planes were fueled and armed-but with relatively ineffectual high-explosive warheads, not the nuclear tips their Falcon rockets must have to wipe out an entire squadron of attacking bombers in one blast. There was no point even alerting the Bomarc missile squadron at North Bay, Ont.: Bomarcs are as useless as spitballs without nuclear warheads...
...find out exactly what they had heard. (Said Lenny to the 400: "I compliment you.") Since then, many a conductor has deemed Time Cycle worthy of one, if not two, hearings, and it has become a frequently performed modernist work. Last week at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ont., it was played with Foss himself conducting from the piano. Festival Co-Director Glenn Gould praised it as "the most important work in the last ten years...
Stratford, Ont., Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Macbeth, The Taming...