Word: pole
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...Minor. It became his most popular work and, after the Tchaikovsky First Concerto, the most popular piano concerto in the repertory. As for Rachmaninoff, he went on to lead one of the few 20th century musical careers that can accurately be called spectacular. Only the Pole Josef Hofmann could be compared with him as a virtuoso pianist, and even Hofmann behaved deferentially around Rachmaninoff. No other concert pianist, except Prokofiev, had Rachmaninoff's stature as a composer. No composer since Liszt ranked as such a keyboard soiree idol...
...Music was nowhere to be found. Never mind that it is New York's oldest performing arts complex, founded in 1861. No matter that in its first golden age its stages presented Sarah Bernhardt in Camille, Admiral Peary showing lantern slides of his discovery of the North Pole, Anna Pavlova dancing The Dying Swan and Enrico Caruso giving one of his final operatic performances. Changing times had made the Academy as outdated as the hobble skirt. Manhattan had taken over as the focal point for the arts in New York City; the Depression and a decline in the surrounding...
When snow settles on the South Lawn, foreign policy is nothing so much as our relationship with the North Pole...
Physiologists point out that the infusion would have little effect in short-time athletic endeavors like pole vaulting and races such as the 100-yd. dash or the 440-or 880-yd. runs; it does not substantially increase the speed at which an athlete can perform. But it does increase the length of time an athlete can function at top speed, and thus for middle-and long-distance runners, it could provide an enormous-and unfair-advantage...
Blayne Heckel led a Crimson sweep in the pole vault, clearing 14 ft. 6 in. Don Berg and Steve Hanes both vaulted 14 ft. to place second and third...