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Word: raggedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Symphony in Three Movements suffered from ragged string playing and the incompetent pianist. This is no fault of the conductor, who has an unorthodox but very clear beat; he just had a bad orchestra to work with.

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Sixth Annual Boston Arts Festival Evaluated | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Two performances of a program by Jose Limon and the 13 other members of his dance company were offered. With choreography by Doris Humphrey, "Variations and Conclusion From New Dance" proved visually striking with contrasting blue and orange costumes. Wallingford Riegger's music was neurotic and neomodal, and a bit...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Sixth Annual Boston Arts Festival Evaluated | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Most of us complain about high taxes; maybe they keep us from getting that current model car, color TV, or hifi, but these things are luxuries, not necessities. If part of the tax money goes to foreign aid and helps bring some ragged, hungry child in another land a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Cokes and vitamin pills. At the end, the Florence audience cheered through 17 curtain calls. After two years of mediocre Musicales, including a somewhat ragged Ring cycle last year, the May Festival had recouped its artistic losses, again ranked with the best in Europe. Said Florence's Mayor Giorgio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trionfo for Tristan | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

The really disturbing thing about the disease is that it chooses to kill trees which give New England's countryside much of the beauty people find in it. Towns like Concord, which has lost 130 trees in the last three years, and Lexington, which has lost nearly 400, are beginning...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Old Dutch Cleanser | 5/17/1957 | See Source »

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