Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pricks his pen to scintillate...
...live in public as man and wife, but in private must be as chaste as brother and sister. The true story of one couple's struggle to achieve this relationship is poignantly told in a new book, Whom God Hath Not Joined, by a young woman under the pen name of Claire McAuley (Sheed & Ward...
...Italian Composer Luigi Dallapiccola, 57, life has by his own testimony been "one long suffer." The suffer is apparent in the spare, abrasively powerful twelve-tone music that has flowed steadily from his pen through years of poverty, persecution and neglect. But Dallapiccola is neglected no longer: even his severest critics in Italy acknowledge his influence as the patriarch of the Italian twelve-tone school. Manhattan audiences last week had a first chance to hear one of the patriarch's finest works - the 13-minute Variations for Orchestra as performed by the visiting Boston Symphony under Guest Conductor Erich...
...played heavily on the possibility of a dangerous missile gap. "We are facing a gap on which we are gambling with our survival," he said on the Senate floor a year ago. Lyndon Johnson had clucked that "the missile gap cannot be eliminated by the stroke of a pen." Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, the Democrats' chief defense specialist had charged: "A very substantial missile gap does exist and the Eisenhower Administration apparently is going to permit this gap to increase." Ike found the attacks so galling that in his final message to Congress last month he said...
Getting ready at the top of a jump, Recknagel slides his plastic-coated skis back and forth to make sure they are not clogged, grasps the two supports at the opening of the starting pen and kicks against the back wall with his right ski. Then, tucked into a ball, he shoots down the slide and off into the freezing air, leaning forward over his skis until his nose seems about to touch their tip. With his arms thrust forward, he looks like a diver soaring endlessly through space. Back at the top of the jump, Recknagel's rivals...