Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than a good course this week Soprano Lucy Shelton is offering an ambitious racital of 20th Century songs including Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens in this year of his 101st birthday. The excellent Music From Mariboro is in town again with chamber music of Hayden, Mozart, and Sir Donald Tovey whose compositions are being revived in his centennial year...
...Pause from this time on Sir," the attorney a large man in a dark blue suit said gruffly as he stared down at his watch in apparent ignorance of the tableau he had just created in room 906 of the Suffolk County Court house. For the jury man watching earnestly the partisans in the gallery had stopped rustling their literature the prosecutor was suffering quietly with his back in Edelin, the reporters had stopped taking notes, the officious court officers were sitting in glum disability, and the judge had yielded his court to an cerie silence and the imaginary proscenium...
Antijunta Sentiment. At the invitation of the Caramanlis government, former BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene is doing a survey of Greek television and recommending ways to move the medium away from the staple fare of junta days: reruns of U.S. situation comedies. The army still controls one of Greece's two channels, but Parliament is now debating legislation to release it from the military's grip...
...nearly 200 years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from Sir Garnet Wolseley who, as adjutant general of the British army, warned in 1882 that the tunnel "would be a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make war upon us." Last week the British House of Commons, reviewing the issue for the 36th time in 172 years, scuttled the most serious...
Seemingly impatient with the witness, Homans addressed Ward as "sir" or even "mr. witness," while prosecutor Flanagan always addressed him as "doctor...