Word: similars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delighted by the shenanigans. They had, after all, paid as much as $50 to see and hear Jack Benny's violin act which, like his familiar monologues, is a masterpiece of comic tim ing. Benny, 75, and his fiddle have raised well over $5,000,000 at similar benefits, and this one netted $14,000 for the Aspen Music School Scholarship Fund. Unfortunately, Benny lamented, not all patrons are kind enough to suspend their critical faculties. "In Philadelphia, a woman stood up and exclaimed, 'My God, he's lost his ear.' Ever since then, they...
...contemporary novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, uses with frequency a similar expression: "So it goes...
Their victory may improve the lot of the two Russians in the U.S.S.R., where the accordion is taken somewhat more seriously. But for Pam Barker, the achievement will bring nothing like the concert opportunites that a similar success could guarantee if she played the cello or the violin. "I once played with the Kansas City Philharmonic," she recalls. "Afterward the concertmaster wouldn't even shake hands with me." Anthony Ettore, a co-chairman of the contest, glumly agreed. "These kids come along with immense virtuosity and musicianship. But all anyone wants them to play is Dark Eyes...
...years ago with Chile's President Eduardo Frei to discuss an arrangement to help maintain world copper prices and quotas. Although no price-fixing agreement resulted from their talks, Frei's nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, beginning in 1967, probably stimulated Kaunda to take a similar step in Zambia...
...With similar logic he puts down Somerset Maugham, not for slickness but for lacking a religious sense. Maugham, he writes, is an agnostic "forced to minimize-pain, vice, the importance of his fellowmen. He cannot believe in a God who punishes and he cannot therefore believe in the importance of a human action." Like Greene himself, Maugham often explored the old British theme of the Imperial dropout, the white-man-going-to-hell-in-the-tropics. But Maugham's doomed colonials could not go to hell-they could only go to the dogs...