Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the Cleveland the peer of the world's old and honored orchestras, he has been hard with his players, cagey with his patrons, and often unkind and intemperate with anyone who finds no place in his scheme of musical excellence. In the process, he has divided the musical world into two camps-Szellots and enemies...
...players, extended its season from 20 to 26 weeks, signed a brisk recording contract with Epic Records, and won a large new audience for his yearly tours. Associate Conductor Robert Shaw's Cleveland Orchestra Chorus has been increased to 201 members, and it is now nearly the peer of his Chorale. The orchestra's women's committee now has 1,500 members, busies itself with sternly taught courses in music appreciation, then goes out to round up contributions to fill in the orchestra's immense deficit. The musicians, astonished at being celebrities, have largely resigned themselves...
...strolls around London, the Earl conducted a personal investigation, triumphantly produced the statistic that one of every 544 British women was a whore. He fortified himself for a debate on drunken driving by deliberately imbibing too much to test his own reactions, earned himself the unofficial title "The Plastered Peer...
...Dotty Peer. There his success has been nothing short of smashing. It is now the most popular feature in the paper. Mail comes in from all over, some from the streetwalkers who still remember him fondly from his investigational days. Boofy keeps in touch with them...
...suppose I personify the dotty English peer," says the Earl of Arran. "A lot of my friends don't like it. They think I've let the side down." But Boofy likes it, and so do his readers, especially when he examines the relationship between hunting and sex among the British upper classes ("Horses lead to divorces") and reconstructs a passionate conversation after a hunt: "Gad, you went well today." "Gad, you're going well now." "Gad. you're a sportsman...