Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Compared to a scant 17% in 1940. By contrast, Britain sends only 9% of its young to university, and France, for all De Gaulle's grandeur, not more than...
HANDEL THE MESSIAH (3 LPs). Handel himself scored several versions of his oratorio, and they bear scant resemblance to the later interpretations inflated by choruses of thousands. Today's revived interest in baroque music has resulted in two new albums that aim at authenticity, each using a chorus of 40 or fewer and an orchestra of similar size. The soloists in both albums strive -with mixed success -to ornament their melodies in 18th century style. Robert Shaw (RCA Victor), conducting his own chorale and orchestra, shows how dramatic the scaled-down work can be; his version, with its furiously...
With a Cabinet full of fresh faces, Sato hopes to restore confidence in the Liberal Democratic government-a confidence that has fallen from a high of 47% popular support in 1964 to a scant 25% according to last week's Asahi Shimbun poll. Though the Liberal Democrats' opponents have been fragmented for a decade, Sato wants to take no chances that his troubles might unite them before the elections...
...Zapruder film was a key to the commission's confusion about the timing of shots, Specter points out that the film is two-dimensional, and it is impossible to know-"precisely"-when Kennedy was first hit. The President, too, may have had a delayed reaction, and since scant fractions of a second are involved, there is a possibility that there was time for Oswald to shoot twice. Nevertheless, Specter argues that an even more convincing point was the fact that no bullet was found in Kennedy's body or in the limousine. "Where, if it didn...
Construction of the skyscraper complex, a scant 20 minutes by car from the Champs-Élysées, six minutes by rooftop helicopter from Orly and second only to the Pentagon in floor space (3,024,000 sq. ft.), will begin in 1968, provided the Paris Municipal Sites Commission bestows its imprimatur on the building, as expected, by Christmas...