Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same strings that were so impressive in the Bach sounded rather thin here. Even early Mozart can stand a good 25 violins. But Mr. Harbison has done good work with his players, making their attacks sharp, their rhythm excellent, and even raising the level of intonation. There is reason to expect more good things from the orchestra...
...Suicide was not always frowned on; in eight instances in the Bible*suicide is not mentioned in condemnation, and the ancients in the Hellenic times tended to look upon the power to take one's own life as an inalienable privilege. But St. Thomas Aquinas summed up the reason for the Roman Catholic Church's severity toward suicide when he wrote: "[It] is the most fatal of sins, because it cannot be repented of." Protestantism was even harder on suicides than Catholicism...
...about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts." Other versions had Hugh enticed into a castle by "the Jew's daughter," who "laid him on a dressing board/ And sticked him like a swine...
...decked lobbies of Miami Beach's best hotels this week strolled 6,000 men who know the value of money. For the delegates to the annual convention of the American Bankers Association, the subject came as natural as breathing. Among them there was a strong note of worry. Reason: money has become so tight that the situation has raised grave questions for the bankers-and for the U.S. How much higher will interest rates go? How long will the pinch last? Will money become so tight that it will"choke off the boom...
...Yacht. Despite the squeeze, hardly any banker is going to be beastly to a borrower. Reason: a great change has swept over U.S. banking. The banker whose thin lips seemed to be permanently fixed in a no has been succeeded by the banker with a neighborly twinkle in his eye. The soft sell has replaced the hard...