Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copy paper. And it is partly closed off by a massive pillar. In the privacy of this corner, a succession of young men have daydreamed, read, studied college textbooks or pecked hopefully at the typewriter between errands for the editor, the writers and the researchers in the N.A. section...
...Violin and Piano was most successful in the fast outer movements. The first movement, in a modified sonata-form with a bit too much stop-and-go, adopted a Bartokian brutality and approach to dissonance; and the finale dared to end softly with an effective pizzicato and staccato section. Rzewski failed to realize, however, that the bottom range of the violin is easily covered up by too heavy a piano accompaniment. And his piano texture tended to fall into two extremes--simple parallel octaves, or thick massive chords--with little in between. The slow movement was much too long, contained...
...take the most measured and courteous exception to your paragraph about me and my partner Charles Clegg in your People section [Feb. 27]? Not the part that says I am an old codger, a boozer, and no-gooder, all of which is doubtless too true. The private car Virginia City is not, however, my car. It belongs jointly and in equal partnership to Charles Clegg and Lucius Beebe, and I would be indebted to you if, in the private car dossier in your library devoted to such matters or to me and Mr. Clegg against our ultimate obituaries, you made...
Shunning academic advancement and the glory of publication, Sweeney is primarily a teacher and a scholar. He is "a superb instructor, thoroughly Socratic," one of the section men in his Humanities 3 course has said. "He brings his class by questions to points that I could present only in a lecture...
...against MoPac went to court to block the plan, but Judge Moore swept aside their objections as "frivolous." With that, the 9,710-mile Missouri Pacific, sixth longest U.S. rail system, came out of bankruptcy and back into private hands. The first major railroad to go into reorganization under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act, it was the last...