Word: shading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Firecrackers popped and bands blared at Rio's international airport last week. It was 107° in the shade. A yelling, flag-waving mob broke through the police cordon and surged forward to greet President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek, returning from a slashing three-week tour of the U.S. and nine European nations with bolstered prestige and a handsome collection of medals...
...surveys and polls. Last week it published its 4 Ib. 1½ oz., 514-page 50th anniversary number, and tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, St. Louis Blues, Over There and God Bless America...
...apologists of the colonial regime say: don't you see, we voluntarily granted freedom to India. [But] if they had tried to remain in India . . . they would have been swept out by the Indian people just as the Chinese people have expelled from China the colonialists of every shade and color, and together with them the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek clique." (The applause at this point was officially described as "stormy...
...need for appropriate loudness, i.e., to match the size of the room to the sound source. Kresge (capacity: 1,200) is a multi-purpose hall, seems ideal for small ensembles or chamber groups, but a shade too small for a full orchestra...
Closing the concert with his specialty, the keyboard virtuoso played six little known harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and succeeded in bringing out every nuance and shade of expression. His performance demonstrated once again the fascinating possibilities of this instrument...