Word: sibelius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brother Richard idly remarked that the sun shining on the roof generated the same heat as 140 tons of soft coal. "Bi tuminous or lignite?" countered Brother David. Richard changed the subject to an 1865 coin that his mother owns. When Daniel recalled 1865 as the year of Jean Sibelius' birth. "They talk awfully good," says their neighbor Susan Rule, 8. "But they're just not hep." A neighborhood mother marvels at Mrs. Trifan, says: "I'm glad to get my kids out of the house...
...ever played the game, musical one-upmanship requires the gall of a party-crasher, the guile of a tax consultant, and the memory of an IBM machine. The winning player must know what musical names to drop at the right time: if he is naive enough to mention Jean Sibelius just now, he is sure to lose points, while Gustav Mahler will get him a lot of mileage this season, and he will do well almost any year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates the great player from...