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Word: respecter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Around our house she is spoken of as a member of the family. In addition to admiration and respect for her culinary abilities, we just plain love her. I was cooking family meals for 20 years "before Julia"; "since Julia" meals are as superior as a jet to a covered wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...soloists come in and go out, winds alternate with strings, and the chorus parts shift abruptly from one end of the voice ranges to the other. Therefore co-ordination and flexibility among the various performing groups are essential to a good performance. The soloists were all successful in this respect, making the most florid passages sound simple. Penny Colwell and Marian Ruhl sang their soprano duets like a single voice, and bass Walter Moore's competence and ease were overwhelming. In some of the tenor and bass duets, there was a lag of a few measures before the voices attained...

Author: By F. JOHN Adams, | Title: Harvard University Choir | 11/22/1966 | See Source »

...choruses and on a dialogue between them which can not be totally convincing with the two choruses right next to each other. Also, the psalm tune in the Nisi Dominus was disappointingly inaudible. But these are among a very small group of disappointments in what was in every respect a tasteful and powerful performance, particularly impressive in the freedom from meter that the choir attained...

Author: By F. JOHN Adams, | Title: Harvard University Choir | 11/22/1966 | See Source »

...freak," said one bass player afterward. It was an expression of respect, for Rich has always been ranked by musicians as a drummer's drummer. They marvel at the fact that he never practices, has none of the calluses and bumps on his hands that other drummers have. Among rival stickmen, the admiration extends from old guardists such as Gene Krupa ("Buddy is the Maury Wills of the drums") to such new guardists as Elvin Jones ("His artistry is almost beyond belief"). But perhaps his most avid fans are symphony percussionists. "He's the world's greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Buddy, the Drum Wonder | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...confronted with this rhetoric of responsibility) thought the issue in Hungary was one of tactics and not a moral issue at all. I am aware of this view, that disagreements about Vietnam should be treated as disagreements about means between men with common ideals and a mutual respect. It is precisely to emphasize that Vietnam is a moral issue, precisely to emphasize that they do not have common ideals and a mutual respect with those whom they must, even if the discourtesy troubles, label as butchers, that the students demonstrated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On McNamara | 11/12/1966 | See Source »

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