Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making up for lost time. Unlike many visiting composers, who felt just as sure of themselves with a baton as with a pen, Poulenc wouldn't be caught dead on a podium. Says he, throwing up his hands: "I have no tempo." Instead, Manhattan audiences saw him first as piano accompanist to Baritone Pierre Bernac in a recital of the songs which, along with his religious choral works, have won Poulenc his share of fame. This week, a Carnegie Hall audience would hear him, too, as soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in his melodic Concert Champ...
Conway, and if you don't do better you'll be the first Conway I ever saw sitting on the bench...
...socialist coalition that forms the present French government is rapidly being squeezed to death. In desperate scrimmage with the Communists on one side, the government this week saw Charles de Gaulle rip off considerable yardage through the broken field of French politics. DeGaulle's heavy gains in the advisory Council of the Republic have greatly strengthened his bargaining position, although the voting was indirect--done by local and Departmental councils--and the Council itself is a body with very limited powers...
Yesterday afternoon the Jayvee football team saw how the other half--the winning half--lives. Suddenly catching fire in the second and third quarters to pour across three touchdowns, the Jayvees hung on through a fourth stanza barrage of Brown desperation passes to pull out their first major win of the campaign. The score was Harvard 18, Brown...
Observers in Australia also spotted the celestial spectacle on Sunday, so the Bloemfontein claim of discovery may be disputed. According to Federer, enough people probably saw the comet at the same time to cancel anyone's right to name it. Future astronomers will probably refer to it as "The Great Comet...