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...most often been likened to Puccini. Bar for bar, he bears scant resemblance, but Menotti's tender and romantic passages in particular come to the ear with something of Puccini's melodramatic appeal. Actually, Menotti says that Mussorgsky has been more his model; he has obviously learned from both Debussy and Prokofiev, too. He seldom strays far from traditional tonality, although he often uses sharp or strong dissonance for effect...
...Great Britain, with one doctor for 870 people, followed by Iceland (890), Denmark (950), Canada and New Zealand (970 each). About half of the U.S. doctors are absorbed by specialties (50,000), hospitals (27,000), government service (more than 12,000) and various sidelines, leaving a scant 100,000 general practitioners-about one for every 1,500 people. How this compares with the G.P. ratio in other countries, the A.M.A. could...
...plays are witty and rich in imagery, scant of plot, roundly romantic in temperament; some are medieval in setting and steeped in the religious quality of his Quaker's faith...
...last Parliament, with a Socialist majority of 140 seats, had turned out legislation at an unprecedented rate. Now, with its majority reduced to a risky seven, Parliament's legislative output would be scant and careful. Said the King's speech: "In view of the restricted time available . . . my government proposes only a limited program of legislation for the present session...
...hunched little man in a dark suit walked into Munro's hardware store in Edmonton last week and asked for 80 feet of seven-eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...