Word: scant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China now has. The Chinese Communists have yet to produce an all-Chinese jet; their vaunted Manchurian "Detroit" still builds only a few thousand trucks a year, plus an occasional prototype "East Wind" automobile. And despite boasts to the contrary, all indications are that Chinese petroleum reserves are painfully scant. (Production last year: 1.46 million tons v. the U.S.'s 353.6 million tons...
...performed by Bernstein and his beefed-up 112-man orchestra. Constant's starkly atonal 24 Preludes lasted a scant 13 minutes. They were played without pauses, ranged in mood from misty delicacy to raucous riots of sound. One prelude, which Boxing Fan Constant called "The Punch." had a hard. loud, opaque sound, lasted for all of six seconds. In another, the musicians found themselves playing 56 parts simultaneously. At concert's end the audience shrieked and bravoed. the critics registered approval, and Conductor Bernstein acknowledged that he found the whole business "interesting'' and "searching...
Rodzinski opened his return visit with a performance of Tristan and promptly scored a triumph that recalled his now legendary performance of the same work with Kirsten Flagstad and the Chicago Symphony eleven years ago. This time Rodzinski was hampered by scant rehearsal time and by the fact that the Lyric Opera's orchestra is a competent but far from first-rate pickup group. But he kindled a performance of ravishing warmth and coloration, better by far than anything previously heard from the Lyric Opera's pit. With Soprano Birgit Nilsson as Isolde, Tenor Karl Liebl as Tristan...
...these luxurious surroundings gather the cream of Harvard's St. Grottlesex crop, the most sophisticated of the graduates of the prominent New England private schools. These men--a scant 14 per cent or so of each upperclass--look to the Clubs as centers for privacy and "good-fellowship," cut off from the hectic University by their locked front doors, their aura of secrecy, and a generally shared feeling of superiority...
...nation's assembly lines this week are two sporty but little-known models with features that no other U.S. cars can match. The cars: 1901 Oldsmobiles, enjoying a jaunty revival in the era of the tail fin and the power brake. The cars are manufactured a scant five miles apart in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. by American Air Products Corp. (whose slogan is "The Backward Look") and by Starts Manufacturing Co. They began producing the cars last year as specialty items and display models for auto dealers and stores. But the antique Oldses caught on so well with merchants, college...