Word: pert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago-born Conductor Smith, 30, who "wanted to be a choir leader for as long as I can remember," established the group at the Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also Faure and Poulenc to the inevitable Handel and Mendelssohn...
...expect their staff to do the same. Since the program began in 1956, Estes and his men have discovered that keeping pace with the construction problems that arise at 20 sublocations around the U.S. is a warsized logistical task. To meet the challenge, Estes has adopted PERT (for Program Evaluation and Review Technique), which was devised by the Navy to speed the Polaris missile program. With PERT, each and every phase of construction is detailed and updated on a phalanx of charts. At Lowry Air Force Base near Denver, which oversees 18 missile sites in Colorado, there are no fewer...
...With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only can Lenore Jensen outshoot me," said one, "but she's got the prettiest legs on the firing line." A pert and dark-eyed senior at Central Michigan University (where she was the 1959 homecoming queen), Lenore Jensen, 20, has been outshooting the competition, male and female, since she entered her first rifle match five years ago. She won the National Women's Smallbore Championship in 1959 and 1960, set three records...
Mozart: Concertos for Horn and Orchestra (Albert Linder, horn; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vanguard). The four concertos Mozart wrote for horn are all beauties -full of pert, charming and sometimes humorous ideas put together with faultless style and taste. Danish Hornist Linder does them justice...
...others, Paul Barstow's quiet and noble Duke Senior, Richard Conrad's tuneful Amiens and Maggie Zizkind's pert, English-sparrowish Celia merit attention and more space than I can give them...