Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mozart's trios for violin, cello, and piano, Nos. 3 and 5, constituted the second half of the program. The string players seemed to have warmed up, but at the same time some of the distinctions between pitch levels melted. In addition, the technically able pianist lacked finesse in rounding off phrases...
Making a final pitch, General Park told the National Press Club: "We Koreans don't like military governments any more than you Americans. My military colleagues and I didn't want to make a military revolution...
...microphone gently and takes pains to pronounce his words completely. Shoebox listens and dutifully prints numbers and symbols on a roll of paper. When it hears "false," it washes out everything it holds in its small memory. It recognizes words spoken fast or slow, or in high or low pitch. It is not disturbed if 'six is pronounced "seex," but it insists on being obtuse if "five" is pronounced "fi'," as is common in rapid speech...
Says she about Nehru's ambitious economic plans: "I think we need these five-year plans, but we are taking on more than we can cope with." The maharani makes a special pitch to the Hindu village women who listen to her, traditionally segregated behind bamboo fences: "I want to tell you, my sisters here, to cast your votes in favor of the Swatantra Party...
...street, dances The Twist, and quotes Sociologist David Riesman. On or off the field, Michigan State Junior George Saimes is something of an iconoclast: a B-plus student who shuns "snap" courses, scoffs at fraternities ("They only do what society tells them to"), and rouses himself to fever pitch with a kind of self-hypnosis. "Every time they send me in," says Fullback Saimes, 20, "I tell myself that the next play is going to be the last of my career, and I ought to do the very best...