Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chandeliered, high-windowed concert hall of Moscow's Tchaikovsky State Conservatory echoed last week to the rubbery beat of Blue Moon and the striding chords of Embraceable You. Then a reedy Texas voice rose above the piano: "A-a-ah've got you un-dah mah skin!" The singer was long-legged, tousled Van Cliburn, 23, prize-winning pianist at the Tchaikovsky International Piano and Violin Festival (TIME, April 21 ), who had got under the Russian skin as no foreign artist had done in modern memory...
...request was turned down. For the next eight years, according to L'Espresso, the notes flew, governments rose and fell, finance ministers came and went, until at last, in 1955, Minister of Finance Giulio Andreotti, a Christian Democratic Party stalwart, said yes. Minister Andreotti promptly defended his decision on legal grounds and pointed out that it applied only to diplomats appointed before the tax was imposed. Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci kept silent. But, crying "anticlericalists!" the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano opened a running debate with critics of the tax exemptions, declared that the implied slap...
...ordained marriage, wrote Martin Luther, it is good for a priest to take a wife. But the founder of Protestantism, who did not marry until he was 41, might be surprised at the latest trend among U.S. Protestant ministers-marriage while still in seminary. Married students in leading seminaries rose from 15% in 1935 to 36% in 1955 to 60% last year...
...audience received Mlle. Boulanger with a standing ovation, which it repeated at the end of the concert; but Mlle. Boulanger, in a final gracious gesture, sat down at the piano, and refused to rise until the musicians rose to share the applause with...
Winning 7-6 and 5-3, Allan Steinert had three birdies and an eagle on four par five holes, and finished one over for the course. Bill Rose, who was an undefeated Freshman golfer last year, won his first varsity matches, 6-5 and 5-3. In last position, Sophomore Bob David split, defeating Amherst, 3-1, and losing to Tufts, 2-1. David started strongly, but fell behind when rain began to soak the course...