Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...palace in the capital of Upper Volta to go through a ceremony that has changed not one jot in centuries. Groveling in the dust, the chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around. When all that is done, drums begin to roll, and a plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation of the sun on earth, and he rules through a court more rigid in its ritual than that of Louis...
Biggs' choice of program was ill-advised. He began with no less than five lengthy sets of variations--by Pasquini, Valente, Soler, Sweelinck and Handel. The theme-and-variations format has produced more dull music than any other, from the Middle Ages to rock 'n' roll. And many of the greatest composers have failed at it. The high quality of the Valente and Sweelinck works was partially obscured by the numbing tediousness of the Pasquini and Soler. The Handel work--the so-called "Harmonious Blacksmith" set--comes from a harpsichord suite and does not belong on the organ, despite...
...total acceptance of President Wilson's League Covenant and outright rejection of it. The compromise: ratify the Covenant with Reservations limiting U.S. acceptance of provisions that seemed to invade U.S. sovereignty. But ailing President Wilson stubbornly urged Senate Democrats to insist on all or nothing. On the showdown roll call, Lodge and most of his fellow Republicans voted for ratification of the Covenant (with 14 Lodge Reservations); 13 Republicans and 42 Democrats voted nay. As Grandson Lodge later pointed out, the U.N. Charter that the U.S. Senate ratified almost unanimously in 1945 included sovereignty safeguards similar to those...
...modern version of the old player piano that permits the pianist to play it straight or pop a player roll in it and, by merely pumping the pedals, grind out Liberace's version of Prisoner of Love. "The best way to play," says a company official, "is with your bare feet." Price...
U.A.W. President Walter Reuther feels that he has regained some of the tactical advantage he lost two months ago. He has managed to stall contract talks-and keep his members in line-until the 1959 models are getting ready to roll off the assembly lines, a time when a strike will hurt more than it would have in June. Stocks of unsold '58s have been whittled from 900,000 to a four-year July low of 672,000, which is only a two-month supply at current selling rates. (While automakers reduced January-July production from...