Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing against low temperatures and a drizzle, Alfred Nash Patterson conducted a worthy semi-concert version of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, probably the finest British opera since Purcell's Dido...
...merit of the new anthology, edited by TV Producer Gene Feldman, 37, and Literary Agent Max Gartenberg, 32, is that it answers this question better collectively than any one of the semi-articulate Beats and Angries has done on his own. The editors have culled the best from both schools (the U.S.'s Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Clellon Holmes; Britain's Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Osborne) and leavened the lot with sharp-eyed critical commentaries from both sides of the water. U.S. readers will find the Beat section more interesting, if only because it helps to illuminate...
...Landau had to run six races in the two days, a qualifying heat and a semi-final heat in each event, as well as the finals...
With the low hurdle field narrowed by the qualifying heat, and only three of the six in each semi-final heat qualifying for the finals, Landau took no chances. He asserted himself from the start and won with ease in 23.0 seconds, breaking the Crimson mark of 23.4 seconds set by Bob Rittenburg in 1955. At that, according to his coach, Bill McCurdy, Landau appeared eased up at the finish...
...following day he gained his revenge on Settele in the semi-finals of the high hurdles. He ran all out and according to McCurdy looked good in beating Settele...