Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Fishwick, who has moved up to the seventh spot after spending most of last year on the bench, likewise had an easy evening. Firsh downed Peter Evensen...
...more serious in the performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which ended the program. The work offers a rare chance to hear the mature Beethoven in a congenial mood, and has a great deal of intrinsic charm; the composer showed good taste in preferring it to the more popular Seventh. But despite the clean and robust tone of the strings and some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite their lack of numbers, covered the woodwinds during much...
Some parents seek to avoid legal tangles by registering their children in correspondence schools. Among the largest are the Home Study Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1,100 elementary school children, 2,000 high school level) and Baltimore's Calvert School (4,500 elementary). Calvert's home instruction is said to have started when its headmaster made up lesson packets for children kept away from school by a whooping cough epidemic...
LAST WEEKEND, two Harvard College professors and one Harvard Medical School faculty member attended the seventh International Conference on the Unity of Sciences (ICUS) in Boston, sponsored by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's International Cultural Foundation. A total of 65 academics--some of them Nobel laureates--came to the three-day convention from all parts of the world to partake in scholarly discussion groups...
...price ($13.10 per bbl.) for the oil that they sell, most of which goes to the U.S.; naturally they plan to step up production sharply. In fact they now hope to triple their oil exports to 1 million bbl. a day by 1980. Though that is only about one-seventh of what the Saudis ship every day, it is impressive for a country that a few years ago was importing...