Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serenade en la (1925) is not Stravinsky at his best. It has a number of very haunting places; but there are some dull stretches that the proper self-criticism would have eliminated or rewritten. Archibald gave its four movements a clear and clean performance, with very little pedal...
...from the peevishness over Captive Nations Week that had inspired his jaw-dropping "kitchen summit" with Nixon at the U.S. fair in Moscow fortnight ago. Smiling Frol, who seemed to regard Nixon as a lodge brother in the freemasonry of politicians, saw to it that the Nixons got a proper Leningrad welcome...
...opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the informal journeys that followed, was a symbol of the Commonwealth to which Canada belongs as a vital and equal young partner. Her Canadian subjects greeted her with neither awe nor indifference, but with friendship. As the Whitehorse Star informed her with proper pioneer breeziness in the Yukon: QUEEN...
...shots," was the standard order to London Sunday Dispatch photographers, "one for England, the other for Ireland." In a sizzling heat wave, the photographers were out on the bathing-suit beat, and while the average British daily carried enough cheesecake for a Berlin banquet, editions exported to Ireland featured proper young women in street clothes. There was no alternative: Roman Catholic Ireland's law and custom have long forced Irish newspapers to adopt one of the most rigorous self-censorships of any free press in the world...
...Irish press proper, taut censorship is maintained vigilantly by the newsmen themselves, from country correspondents, who will fail to phone in a story because it "isn't nice," to city editors, who generally accept all "conventions," do not think of them as actual censorship. All of which has led to an adage that pretty accurately describes the Irish press: "It doesn't matter what happens, as long as it doesn't get into the paper...