Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diah, editor of an Indonesian newspaper and magazine, will open the program with a talk on her country. She will be followed by a panel of four Seminar members who will answer questions from the floor about Britain. The panel will include Michael Davis of the London Air Ministry, Peter Kennedy, physics lecturer at London University, William Ross, a Member of Parliament, and John Townsend, editor of the Manchester Guardian Weekly...
...Mapple, in Ishmael's intermittent narration, and in numerous speeches by Ahab that are taken almost verbatim from the book. At the same time, realizing that the camera and the pen are by no means interchangeable storytellers, they have not hesitated to take beneficial liberties with the novel. In Peter Coffin's Inn they have inserted a drinking scene that instantly captures the character and spirit of the whaling men. Where Melville needed whole chapters to describe the processing of the whale's flesh--chapters which in most abridgments and adaptations are the first to go--Huston's camera...
...Damnedest Farce." Even in the Land of Long, accustomed to taking its politics raw, Earl's antics have turned faces red. Representative Peter Murtes of New Orleans described one legislative fracas as "the damnedest farce I have ever seen," suggested that if the members were to continue to ignore their own rules "every time Earl Long doesn't like the way things are going," they should "go home and let him vote...
Bartok: Mikrokosmos (Gyorgy Sandor, pianist; Columbia, 3 LPs). All of the 153 little pieces that Bartok intended for his son Peter. The music acquaints the player-or the listener-with technical problems of modern music, notably its twisty rhythms and its unpredictable counterpoint, and at the same time with a wide variety of musical expression. Performance: excellent...
...word writing job, he worked a 10 a.m.-to-3 a.m. schedule, left Harper no time to submit galley proofs on the last four chapters. Last week, as the results began simmering, Reporter Donovan relaxed with his wife Martha and his three children (Patricia, 13, Peter, 9, Amy, 8). "This was a killer," he said. "I wouldn't do it again for anything...